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Associations between appearance-related self-discrepancies and young women's and men's affect, body satisfaction, and emotional eating: a comparison of fixed-item and participant-generated self-discrepancies
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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:23 authored by Emma Halliwell, Helga DittmarThis study examines the associations between appearance related, actual-ideal self-discrepancies-from both own and romantic partner's standpoints-and negative affect, body satisfaction, and eating behavior. It extends previous research through studying both genders and the romantic partner standpoint, but its main novel contribution is a systematic comparison between idiographic, participant-generated, and nomothetic, fixed-item measures of appearance-related self-discrepancies. The findings show that these measures cannot be, and should not be, treated as equivalent. The idiographic measures were superior in predicting outcome variables when considering the own standpoint. Nomothetic measures did demonstrate some gender-specific associations, but only from the romantic partner standpoint, and only for women. These findings can be explained with respect to the assessment of accessible, versus available, self-discrepancies. Implications for self-discrepancy and body image theory and research are discussed.
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Personality and Social Psychology BulletinISSN
0146-1672Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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4Volume
32Page range
447-458Pages
12.0Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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Senior author. Halliwell was Dittmar's research student.Full text available
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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