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Mass Media Beauty Standards, Body Surveillance, and Relationship Satisfaction within Romantic Couples
As part of objectification processes, individuals engage in body surveillance, whereby they constantly assess the extent to which their external appearance conforms to culturally valued ideals. Mass media play a key role in fostering the objectification and internalization of media beauty standards...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073833 |
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description | As part of objectification processes, individuals engage in body surveillance, whereby they constantly assess the extent to which their external appearance conforms to culturally valued ideals. Mass media play a key role in fostering the objectification and internalization of media beauty standards and increases body surveillance. At the individual level, the literature has largely demonstrated that body surveillance leads to a variety of negative psychological outcomes, but little research has focused on the consequences of body surveillance in the context of romantic relationships. Using dyadic data from couples who identified as heterosexual, the present study examined relations among internalization of media standards, body surveillance, surveillance of the partner’s body, surveillance from the partner, and relationship satisfaction. There were 438 participants (219 couples) recruited using snowball sampling. They were surveyed with an anonymous online questionnaire. Results showed that internalization of media standards was related to body surveillance in both men and women, and to surveillance of the partner’s body and relationship satisfaction in men only. For both sexes, surveillance of the partner’s body was negatively associated with relationship satisfaction. For women only, surveillance from the partner was also negatively related to relationship satisfaction. Implications are discussed. |
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spelling | pubmed-89977402022-04-12 Mass Media Beauty Standards, Body Surveillance, and Relationship Satisfaction within Romantic Couples Rollero, Chiara Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As part of objectification processes, individuals engage in body surveillance, whereby they constantly assess the extent to which their external appearance conforms to culturally valued ideals. Mass media play a key role in fostering the objectification and internalization of media beauty standards and increases body surveillance. At the individual level, the literature has largely demonstrated that body surveillance leads to a variety of negative psychological outcomes, but little research has focused on the consequences of body surveillance in the context of romantic relationships. Using dyadic data from couples who identified as heterosexual, the present study examined relations among internalization of media standards, body surveillance, surveillance of the partner’s body, surveillance from the partner, and relationship satisfaction. There were 438 participants (219 couples) recruited using snowball sampling. They were surveyed with an anonymous online questionnaire. Results showed that internalization of media standards was related to body surveillance in both men and women, and to surveillance of the partner’s body and relationship satisfaction in men only. For both sexes, surveillance of the partner’s body was negatively associated with relationship satisfaction. For women only, surveillance from the partner was also negatively related to relationship satisfaction. Implications are discussed. MDPI 2022-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8997740/ /pubmed/35409516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073833 Text en © 2022 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Rollero, Chiara Mass Media Beauty Standards, Body Surveillance, and Relationship Satisfaction within Romantic Couples |
title | Mass Media Beauty Standards, Body Surveillance, and Relationship Satisfaction within Romantic Couples |
title_full | Mass Media Beauty Standards, Body Surveillance, and Relationship Satisfaction within Romantic Couples |
title_fullStr | Mass Media Beauty Standards, Body Surveillance, and Relationship Satisfaction within Romantic Couples |
title_full_unstemmed | Mass Media Beauty Standards, Body Surveillance, and Relationship Satisfaction within Romantic Couples |
title_short | Mass Media Beauty Standards, Body Surveillance, and Relationship Satisfaction within Romantic Couples |
title_sort | mass media beauty standards, body surveillance, and relationship satisfaction within romantic couples |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8997740/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35409516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073833 |
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