物化
心理学
发展心理学
社会心理学
自我概念
认识论
哲学
作者
Elizabeth A. Daniels,Eileen L. Zurbriggen,L. Monique Ward
出处
期刊:Body Image
[Elsevier]
日期:2020-06-01
卷期号:33: 278-299
被引量:76
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.02.016
摘要
Objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) provides a framework for understanding how cultural pressure on women’s appearance (i.e., sexual objectification) impacts their psychological and physical well-being. Although objectification theory proposes that objectification processes commence with the onset of puberty, much of the existing research on self-objectification has been conducted with adult women. Thus, less is known about how self-objectification operates with younger girls and adolescent girls. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of self-objectification research on girls under the age of 18 including the prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of self-objectification as well as protective factors (n = 66 studies). In addition, we discuss how development is relevant to objectification theory and self-objectification. Finally, we call for a program of research that addresses methodological and conceptual concerns in existing research, fills gaps in the research literature, and pays further attention to developmental processes in self-objectification. An especially notable pattern we identified is that self-objectification is strongly related to age, such that older girls experience higher levels of self-objectification compared to younger girls. The aim of this paper is to provoke deeper considerations of development and the inclusion of girls in future research on self-objectification.
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