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- Title
Tween Television and Peers: Reinforcing Social Agents in Early Adolescents' Body Surveillance and Self‐Objectification.
- Authors
Rousseau, Ann; Eggermont, Steven
- Abstract
Sociocultural models of body image posit that the media and peers play a role in early adolescents' body dissatisfaction. Introducing a sociocultural perspective on youth sexualization, the present three‐wave panel study (N = 968, Mage = 11.30) sought to examine the role of tween television and peer appearance conversations in early adolescents' body surveillance and self‐objectification over time. Special attention was given to the mediating role of media internalization in these relationships. The results showed evidence for a reciprocal interaction between media internalization and peer appearance conversations and identified this reciprocal interaction as the underlying mechanism linking tween television exposure to higher levels of body surveillance and self‐objectification 1 year later. Implications for body image and media literacy programs are discussed.
- Subjects
SOCIOCULTURAL factors; MEDIA literacy; BODY image in adolescence; ADOLESCENT psychology; SEXUAL objectification
- Publication
Journal of Research on Adolescence (Wiley-Blackwell), 2018, Vol 28, Issue 4, p807
- ISSN
1050-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jora.12367