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- Title
Understanding Women's Body Satisfaction: The Role of Husbands.
- Authors
Markey, Charlotte N.; Markey, Patrick M.; Birch, Leann L.
- Abstract
This study was designed to examine the role women's husbands may play in determining their body satisfaction. One hundred and seventy-two (172; mean age = 37.53 years) European American women's body satisfaction, their perceptions of their husbands' satisfaction with their bodies, and their husbands' actual satisfaction with their bodies were assessed using the Body Figure Rating Scale; women's weight status was assessed using body mass index (BMI). Results indicated that wives were much more dissatisfied with their bodies than were their husbands and that wives thought their husbands were much more dissatisfied with their bodies than the husbands actually were. Further, findings suggested that wives' BMIs were not as strongly related to husband's satisfaction with their wives' bodies as they were to wives' own satisfaction or perceptions of their husbands' satisfaction with their bodies.
- Subjects
SPOUSES' legal relationship; MARRIAGE; BODY image; BODY weight; SATISFACTION; SENSORY perception
- Publication
Sex Roles, 2004, Vol 51, Issue 3-4, p209
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Abstract
- DOI
10.1023/B:SERS.0000037764.40569.2b