Dittmar, Helga, Halliwell, Emma and Stirling, Emma (2009) Understanding the impact of thin media models on women’s body-focused affect: the roles of thin-ideal internalization and weight-related self-discrepancy activation in experimental exposure effects. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 28 (1). pp. 43-72. ISSN 0736-7236
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Previous experimental research demonstrates that exposure to ultra-thin media models has negative effects on many women's body image, but neglects underlying psychological processes. We develop and test a moderated mediation model with internalization of the thin beauty ideal as moderator, and activation of weight-related self-discrepancies as mediating mechanism through which exposure leads to heightened body-focused negative affect. We demonstrate that thin-internalizers' higher negative affect after exposure to advertisements featuring thin models is fully mediated by weight-related self-discrepancy activation (N = 87; Study 1). These findings replicate in a larger sample of women (N = 155; Study 2) and hold regardless of whether or not thin models' body size was emphasized during exposure. Implications for interventions are discussed.
Item Type: | Article |
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Schools and Departments: | School of Psychology > Psychology |
Depositing User: | Helga Dittmar |
Date Deposited: | 06 Feb 2012 15:42 |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2017 12:29 |
URI: | http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/13970 |
Google Scholar: | 28 Citations |