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- Title
How Social and Mass Media Relate to Youth’s Self-Sexualization: Taking a Cross-National Perspective on Rewarded Appearance Ideals.
- Authors
Trekels, Jolien; Karsay, Kathrin; Eggermont, Steven; Vandenbosch, Laura
- Abstract
Although media exposure has been related to cognitive preoccupation with appearance, research rarely investigated adolescents’ behavioral self-sexualization. To address this gap, the present study among 12- to 16-year-olds (N = 1527; 50.2% girls) in Austria, Belgium, Spain, and South-Korea (1) investigates whether different types of media use relate to self-sexualization, (2) explores the explanatory value of rewarded appearance ideals, and (3) considers culture and gender as moderating factors. Despite cultural variation, a general trend of increasing self-sexualization with social media use and magazine reading appeared across the countries. Moreover, women’s magazine reading and rewards were related to self-sexualization among all the girls across the countries, which suggests that girls may be more vulnerable to the examined effects. Overall, this study provides a better understanding of the unique contribution of specific media genres to youth’s self-sexualization and points at the importance of social media use in girls’ and boys’ engagement in sexualizing appearance behaviors across four countries.
- Subjects
AUSTRIA; BELGIUM; SOUTH Korea; SPAIN; SEXUAL objectification; SOCIAL media; BODY image in adolescence; ATTITUDES toward sex; ADOLESCENT psychology; SELF-expression; TEENAGERS' sexual behavior; BODY image in children
- Publication
Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 2018, Vol 47, Issue 7, p1440
- ISSN
0047-2891
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10964-018-0844-3