Empowered Sexual Objects? The Priming Influence of Self-Sexualization on Thoughts and Beliefs Related to Gender, Sex, and Power

Aubrey, Jennifer L Stevens; Gamble, Hilary; Hahn, Rachel

doi:10.1080/10570314.2016.1257822

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“…Researchers interested in understanding how others react to self-sexualizing women and girls have treated self-sexualization as an independent variable and operationalized it by using dress. For example, Aubrey et al (2017) described the self-sexualized videos of women as having a high degree of body exposure presumably achieved by selected items of dress (e.g., short skirts, tight clothing). Smith et al (2018) operationalized a self-sexualized woman by depicting a woman wearing a mid-thigh length skirt, a red cardigan that was pinched around the waist, and a low-cut black top that emphasized her breasts.…”

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“…Also, of concern is the lack of reporting of pilot testing of stimuli. Although some researchers (e.g., Aubrey et al, 2017) reported conducting a pretest, others (Baumgartner et al, 2015; Smith et al, 2018) did not. Failure to conduct pilot tests of stimuli raises the question of whether participants in the studies agreed with researchers on what comprised self-sexualized appearances.…”

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“…To investigate inferences about women that self-sexualized, Aubrey et al (2017) had undergraduate men and women view music videos of female artists that either did or did not self-sexualize. Criteria for self-sexualizing videos were that the artist had a high degree of body exposure, the video featured close-up shots of her body parts, the artist danced or moved in a sexually suggestive way, and the video featured the presence of a male spectator.…”

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A Narrative Critical Review of Research on Self-Sexualization

Johnson

2021

Clothing and Textiles Research Journal

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Self-sexualization is an emerging area of research relevant to clothing researchers as evaluations of sexual appeal often stem from specific items and uses of dress. Our research purpose was to systematically review the available research on self-sexualization. In our review we focused specifically on three topics: what precedes self-sexualizing? What outcomes are associated with self-sexualizing? And how has self-sexualization been operationalized? The time frame for this review was 2007–2020. To locate the 31 journal articles that supplied the data for this research, multiple data bases were searched using the following search terms: self-sexualization, self-sexualizing, and sexual self-presentation. Important precursors to self-sexualization include exposure to media and social media, self-objectification, internalization of sexualization, and desiring attention from others. Empowerment has been studied as an outcome of self-sexualization along with negative inferences concerning both young women and girls that self-sexualize. Operationalization of self-sexualization is varied and likely contributes to inconsistent findings.

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A Narrative Critical Review of Research on Self-Sexualization

Johnson

2021

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“…This association was found on the within-person level, meaning that on days that a specific individual saw more Covid-19 information in news media than one would normally see on a day, one also thought that Covid-19 formed a bigger threat to society (i.e., societal severity). According to Aubrey et al (2017), this within-person effect might be explained based on media priming effect theories. For example, when being exposed to media content, cognitions that are semantically linked to this media content become temporarily more accessible and, hence, more likely to be used in subsequent processing (Higgins et al, 1985).…”

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How Social Media, News Media and Interpersonal Communication Relate to Covid-19 Risk Perceptions and Behaviours

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Rousseau

2023

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To inhibit the spread of the Covid-19 virus, several governmental guidelines (e.g., social contact, vaccination) were proposed. Whether or not these protective behaviours are implemented often depends on citizens’ risk perceptions which, according to previous research, are formed by social media, news media, and interpersonal communications. However, previous research is limited in two ways. First, research mostly focused on adults, thereby neglecting emerging adults who are less affected but equally needed to adhere to the rules. Second, research mainly measured behaviours at one-time point and studied between-person associations, thereby neglecting short-term within-person effects. We therefore conducted a daily diary study among 208 emerging adults (Mage = 21.63, SDage = 1.15) and examined which communication channels increased Covid-19 risk perceptions (i.e., perceived personal susceptibility and societal severity) and, in turn, individuals’ willingness to get vaccinated and follow Covid-19 rules. The results showed that only news media predicted societal severity on the within-level and that severity, in turn, predicted willingness to get vaccinated and follow rules at the between-level. Additionally, social media predicted interpersonal conversations about Covid-19 at the between-and within-level. Overall, this study highlights the importance of news media in affecting emerging adults’ health perceptions and behaviours during a crisis.

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“…Yet several authors have underlined the fact that objectification theory reduces women to “cultural dupes” and victims of “‘false consciousness,’ unable to see the real patriarchal forces at stake in their environment” (Gill & Donaghue, 2013, p. 243). From this point of view, women’s sexualization is conceived as “happening to women and girls, as if it is outside of their choice or control” (Aubrey, Gamble, & Hahn, 2017, p. 363).…”

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Two Preregistered Direct Replications of “Objects Don’t Object: Evidence That Self-Objectification Disrupts Women’s Social Activism”

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Self-objectification has been claimed to induce numerous detrimental consequences for women at the individual level (e.g., sexual dysfunction, depression, eating disorders). Additionally, at the collective level, it has been proposed that self-objectified women might themselves contribute to the maintenance of the patriarchal status quo, for instance, by participating less in collective action. In 2013, Calogero found a negative link between self-objectification and collective action, which was mediated by the adoption of gender-specific system justification. Here, we report two preregistered direct replications (PDRs) of Calogero’s original study. We conducted these PDRs after three failures to replicate the positive relation between self-objectification and gender-specific system-justification belief in correlational studies. Results of the two PDRs, in which we used a Bayesian approach, supported the null hypothesis. This work has important theoretical implications because it challenges the role attributed to self-objectified women in the maintenance of patriarchy.

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Empowered Sexual Objects? The Priming Influence of Self-Sexualization on Thoughts and Beliefs Related to Gender, Sex, and Power

Cited by 14 publications

References 40 publications

A Narrative Critical Review of Research on Self-Sexualization

A Narrative Critical Review of Research on Self-Sexualization

How Social Media, News Media and Interpersonal Communication Relate to Covid-19 Risk Perceptions and Behaviours

Two Preregistered Direct Replications of “Objects Don’t Object: Evidence That Self-Objectification Disrupts Women’s Social Activism”

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