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Using a survey of college women and men, we examined third-person perception as it related to body image distortion in women and men and five target “other” groups. Participants were shown an image of a thin-ideal swimsuit model (women) or a muscular swimsuit model (men) and were asked to project how repeated exposure to images like the one viewed would affect themselves and others. We expanded the traditional test of third-person perception by controlling for social physique anxiety, a psychosocial scale that measures one’s fear of his/her physique being negatively evaluated by others, in order to determine if participants high in physique anxiety would project greater effects on self than on others. To a large degree, our findings suggest that the college students in our sample predicted exposure to thin-ideal/muscular media would affect other target groups more than themselves. Findings from our test of the age-based dimension of social distance suggest that the magnitude of the perceptual gap between perceived effects on the self and target others who were significantly younger and more socially distant did not increase as predicted but decreased. Social physique anxiety did increase first person effects for men and for women, and male and female respondents who reported higher exposure to reality makeover programming were more likely to endorse plastic surgery in American women in general, other college women their age, and themselves (for female respondents). These and other findings are discussed. |
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Name: International Communication Association
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| Bissell, Kimberly. and Leone, Ron. "Gender Differences in Third-Person Perceptions About Body Image and Exposure to Reality Makeover Television Shows" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany, Jun 16, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p92280_index.html> |
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| Bissell, K. and Leone, R. , 2006-06-16 "Gender Differences in Third-Person Perceptions About Body Image and Exposure to Reality Makeover Television Shows" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p92280_index.html |
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Abstract: Using a survey of college women and men, we examined third-person perception as it related to body image distortion in women and men and five target “other” groups. Participants were shown an image of a thin-ideal swimsuit model (women) or a muscular swimsuit model (men) and were asked to project how repeated exposure to images like the one viewed would affect themselves and others. We expanded the traditional test of third-person perception by controlling for social physique anxiety, a psychosocial scale that measures one’s fear of his/her physique being negatively evaluated by others, in order to determine if participants high in physique anxiety would project greater effects on self than on others. To a large degree, our findings suggest that the college students in our sample predicted exposure to thin-ideal/muscular media would affect other target groups more than themselves. Findings from our test of the age-based dimension of social distance suggest that the magnitude of the perceptual gap between perceived effects on the self and target others who were significantly younger and more socially distant did not increase as predicted but decreased. Social physique anxiety did increase first person effects for men and for women, and male and female respondents who reported higher exposure to reality makeover programming were more likely to endorse plastic surgery in American women in general, other college women their age, and themselves (for female respondents). These and other findings are discussed. |
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| Exposure to Reality Makeover Television Shows Are You For Real?: Gender Differences in Third-Person Perceptions about Body Image and Exposure to Reality Makeover Television Shows Abstract While there is a great deal of literature available documenting the behavioral effects of the mass media on patterns of disordered-eating a smaller band of literature examines third-person perception as it relates to the media’s effect on self and others’ body image distortion. Using a survey of college women and men we examined |
| (6.41) (3.89) 43.08 262 p<.001 High school boys/ girls 20.01 25.83 (6.59) (3.88) 26.29 262 p<.001 Junior high boys/ girls 16.53 23.41 (7.41) (5.21) 11.96 262 p<.001 elementary aged boys/girls 6.56 11.97 (5.83) (7.36) .40 262 ns ________________________________________________________________________________ *Male respondents were asked to project perceived effects on males and females were asked to project perceived effects on females. 32 |
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