Body image concern among Australian adolescent girls: The role of body comparisons with models and peers

Examining an elaborated sociocultural model of disordered eating among college women: The roles of social comparison and body surveillance

“…It may be that these constructs would account for change in one another over time if the time frame between study assessments was lengthened; that is, the amount of time between T1 and T2 in the current study (i.e., 3 months) may have simply been too short to allow for such change to occur. It may also be important for future work in this area to use younger samples, as research has indicated that girls as young as 3 years demonstrate evidence of thin-ideal internalization (Harriger, Calogero, Witherington, & Smith, 2010) and that body image is particularly salient among younger adolescent girls(Carey, Donaghue, & Broderick, 2011; Carey et al, 2014). Given that these constructs were not found to predict change in one another over the course of the study, it was not possible that social comparison and body surveillance would mediate the thin-ideal internalization-body dissatisfaction relation prospectively using a half-longitudinal design.…”

“…It may be that via social comparison, individuals come to know that they have not yet actualized their ideal. Indeed, appearance-related social comparison and body comparison have been found to mediate the relation between thin-ideal internalization and body dissatisfaction in cross-sectional studies of preadolescent and adolescent girls (Blowers, Loxton, Grady-Flesser, Occhipinti, & Dawe, 2003; Carey, Donaghue, & Broderick, 2014). However, Fitzsimmons-Craft, Harney, et al (2012) found that neither general nor appearance-related social comparison tendencies uniquely mediated this relation (above and beyond the effects of body surveillance) in a cross-sectional study of college women.…”

Social comparisons on social media: The impact of Facebook on young women's body image concerns and mood

“…Some research examining the impact of appearance comparisons to these different target groups has shown that comparisons to peers and models can lead to different outcomes in regard to women's body image concerns, perhaps because the appearance of peers is seen to be more personally attainable than the appearance of models or celebrities due to the similar resources and lifestyle that peers often have to oneself. However, the findings in the area are mixed (Carey, Donaghue, & Broderick, 2013;Leahey & Crowther, 2008;Ridolfi, Myers, Crowther, & Ciesla, 2011;Schutz, Paxton, & Wertheim, 2002), and a meta-analysis of research on appearance comparisons and body dissatisfaction found no significant difference between the effects of comparisons to peers or thinideal media images on women's body dissatisfaction (Myers & Crowther, 2009). …”

“…Similarly, we hypothesized that exposure to an online fashion magazine would lead to more negative mood, body dissatisfaction, weight and shape discrepancy, and face, hair, and skin-related discrepancy than would exposure to an appearance-neutral control website. Given that no previous research has examined the difference between exposure to Facebook vs. a magazine (online or in print), and given that previous research on comparisons to peers and models is mixed (Carey et al, 2013;Leahey & Crowther, 2008;Ridolfi et al, 2011;Schutz et al, 2002), no specific hypotheses were made regarding Facebook vs. the online fashion magazine. Finally, appearance comparison tendency was predicted to moderate the relationship between exposure to an assigned website (Facebook, online fashion magazine, control) and state negative mood, body dissatisfaction, and appearance discrepancies.…”

Body image and adolescence: A behavioral impairment model

“…Internalization of the ideal of beauty by sociocultural influences and social comparison facilitate development of a negative body image and unhappiness with appearance (Carey et al, 2014;Vartanian and Dey, 2013).…”