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  Partner: UNT College of Education
 Department: Kinesiology, Health Promotion, and Recreation
 Resource Type: Article
 Year: 2005
 Month: January
Self-Objectification Among Physically Active Women

Self-Objectification Among Physically Active Women

Date: January 2005
Creator: Greenleaf, Christy
Description: Objectification Theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) was used to examine (a) the mediation effects of body shame and flow on the relationship between self-objectification and disordered eating, (b) age differences in self-objectification, body shame, flow, and disordered eating, (c) the prediction of physical activity from self-objectification, flow, body shame, and disordered eating, and (d) the relationships between self-objectification, flow, and physical activity. Participants were 394 women ages 188-64. Results revealed that (a) body shame medicated the relationship between self-objectification and disordered eating, (b) younger women reported higher levels of self-objectification, body shame, dieting, and several flow characteristics, (c) older women scored higher on the loss of self-consciousness subscale of the flow measure, and (d) self-objectification was a significant predictor of physical activity.
Contributing Partner: UNT College of Education