The Affective Consequences of Minimizing Women's Body Image Concerns

Autor/inn/en	Bosson, Jennifer K.; Pinel, Elizabeth C.; Thompson, J. Kevin
Titel	The Affective Consequences of Minimizing Women's Body Image Concerns
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 32 (2008) 3, S.257-266 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2008.00434.x
Schlagwörter	Females; Self Concept; Body Composition; Social Influences; Social Attitudes; Negative Attitudes; Emotional Response; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Selbstkonzept; Sozialer Einfluss; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Negative Fixierung; Emotionales Verhalten
Abstract	We propose that women regularly anticipate and receive messages from others that trivialize the severity of their body image concerns. Moreover, we suggest that these minimizing messages can heighten women's negative affective reactions to body image threats, particularly if they internalize them. Two studies provided support for these ideas. In Study 1, women and men estimated the likelihood that others would minimize the feelings of a woman who felt badly about her body. As expected, women estimated a high likelihood of minimization. In Study 2, women internalized or rejected a message that either minimized or validated the severity of body image concerns before undergoing a body image threat themselves. Women felt heightened negative affect following the threat if they internalized the minimizing message, but they maintained their prethreat affective state if they rejected the minimizing message or internalized the validating message. The discussion focuses on the implications of these findings for research on effective social support and clinical interventions. (As Provided).
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