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- Title
The Swimsuit Becomes Us All: Ethnicity, Gender, and Vulnerability to Self-Objectification.
- Authors
Hebl, Michelle R.; King, Eden B.; Lin, Jean
- Abstract
Self-objectification theory posits and past research has found that Caucasian women Is body image is negatively affected by a stigma of obesity and sociocultural norm of thinness that leads women to self-focus from a critical external perspective. However, research in this area is limited by its methodology and the restricted demographic composition of its study participants. The current study tested 176 men and 224 women of Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, and Asian American descent in a situation that induced a state of self-objectification (e.g., wearing a one piece Speedo bathing suit ) or that served as a control condition (e.g., wearing a sweater). Contrary to previous research, when put in a self-objectifying situation, men and women of every; ethnicity experienced negative outcomes (e.g., lower math performance) that parallel those previously found for Caucasian women.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BODY image in women; MEN'S studies; PERSON schemas; SELF-perception; ETHNOLOGY; BATHING suits
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2004, Vol 30, Issue 10, p1322
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167204264052