Keywords
Body image disturbance, Body image in men, Eating disorders in men, Self perception in men, Teasing
Abstract
Appearance-related commentary can be positive or negative. Such commentary has been shown to negatively affect the mental health and well-being of women in a well-documented body of research. There is limited research on this topic pertaining to males. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of appearance-related commentary in men. Results indicate that men who receive more negative commentary are more likely to experience eating pathology, body dissatisfaction, distress from commentary, and participate in compulsive exercising and appearancechange behaviors. However, men that receive positive commentary are likely to experience more positive outcomes, reporting less dissatisfaction and pathology but more appearance-change behaviors. It appears that men are affected by negative, appearance-related commentary in the same ways that women are, but that they experience positive commentary in a more direct and appropriate manner. Additionally, self-objectification, a covariate found to interact in similar relations with women, was not found to account for any of the variance between appearance-related feedback and outcomes.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2010
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Negy, Charles
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Psychology
Degree Program
Clinical Psychology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0003498
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0003498
Language
English
Release Date
December 2010
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Sciences, Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Schuster, Elizabeth B., "Easing The Teasing The Effects Of Appearance-related Feedback On Body Image Disturbance, Eating Pathology, Body Change Behaviors, And Self-objectification" (2010). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1670.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/1670