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Can self-esteem protect against the deleterious consequences of self-objectification for mood and body satisfaction in physically active female university students?
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PMID:  21558585     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
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Using objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997), this study tested the interaction between self-objectification, appearance evaluation, and self-esteem in predicting body satisfaction and mood states. Participants (N = 93) were physically active female university students. State self-objectification was manipulated by participants wearing tight revealing exercise attire (experimental condition) or baggy exercise clothes (control condition). Significant interactions emerged predicting depression, anger, fatness, and satisfaction with body shape and size. For participants in the self-objectification condition who had low (as opposed to high) appearance evaluation, low self-esteem was associated with high depression, anger, and fatness and low satisfaction with body shape and size. In contrast, for participants with high self-esteem, these mood and body satisfaction states were more favorable irrespective of their levels of appearance evaluation. For female exercisers, self-esteem-enhancing strategies may protect against some of the negative outcomes of self-objectification.
Authors:
Cecilie Thøgersen-Ntoumani; Nikos Ntoumanis; Jennifer Cumming; Kimberley J Bartholomew; Gemma Pearce
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Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of sport & exercise psychology     Volume:  33     ISSN:  0895-2779     ISO Abbreviation:  J Sport Exerc Psychol     Publication Date:  2011 Apr 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-05-11     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8809258     Medline TA:  J Sport Exerc Psychol     Country:  United States    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  289-307     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
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