Media's influence on the drive for muscularity in undergraduates

Cramblitt, Brooke; Pritchard, Mary E.

doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2013.08.003

Cited by 56 publications

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“…However, this preference for slimness is more likely with consumption of general media than athletic media (Pritchard & Cramblitt, 2014), a finding that dove tails with our finding that women who read about the health benefits of moderation and pet owner ship (i.e., general media) favored slimness more than those who read about excessive exercise (i.e., athletic media). Furthermore, our finding that preferences for muscularity were not influenced by the article has support in research that has shown that men's and women's drives for muscularity are not associated with their magazine reading habits (Cramblitt & Pritchard, 2013;Pritchard & Cramblitt, 2014). No priming of content affected people's judgments about their moderate fitness adherence or healthfulness, which we attribute to the measures themselves because they tapped moderation in fitness, and it is typically exposure to unrealistic ideal bodies that contributes to elevated body dissatisfaction (Bartlett et al, 2008;Chia & Wen, 2010;Richins, 1991).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

Does Fitness Priming Influence Self- and Other-Judgements of Personal and Physical Characteristics?

Burris¹,

Brownlow²,

Lins³

2016

PsiChiJournal

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As I write these lines, Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research has fully transitioned to the editorial stew ardship of Dr. Debi Brannan. It is a bittersweet time; I treasured deeply the tasks of editing the Psi Chi Journal. For nearly 5 years, I benefitted from reading cuttingedge research in broad topics across psy chology. I was inspired by the knowledge that most of the authors were upandcoming researchers whose sense of efficacy could be nurtured through a positive publication experience. I reveled in the beauty of watching undergraduate and graduate researchers shine, faculty mentors nurture our next generation of researchers, and colleagues support Psi Chi Journal authors in putting forth the best possible work. I retain a sense of awe at watching a community of scholars seamlessly collaborate for the greater good of science and psychology. I step down with a sense of having gained much more than I contributed. This editorial summarizes the road we-the editorial team-traveled during my years as editor of this fine Journal. The Journal edito rial team accomplishments since November of 2011 and until July of 2016 included advances in both structure and function of the Journal. Psi Chi Journal's notable changes in the 2011-16 period include a name change, expansion of author submissions, a shift from paper to online submis sions, and indexing in EBSCO Academic Search Complete and PsycINFO. We also created a Google Scholar profile. These changes were intended to increase the visibility, and thus impact, of Psi Chi Journal in the field. Increasing author submissions would allow us to increase the selectivity of pub lished works. Increased visibility through indexing increases the probability of citation. Google Scholar allowed us to track the impact of specific articles and to calculate an h index for the Journal. At the time of this printing, the h index for the Journal was WINTER 2016 PSI CHI JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 76%

Does Fitness Priming Influence Self- and Other-Judgements of Personal and Physical Characteristics?

Burris¹,

Brownlow²,

Lins³

2016

PsiChiJournal

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“…Two other studies showed that consumption of certain types of media (e.g. men’s magazines) were associated with both men and women’s drive for muscularity [21, 22]. Taken together, the recent literature suggests research on diet and physical activity is increasingly considering the importance of gender and gender norms but the research is still limited.…”

Section: Gender and Health Behaviorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Current trends in the study of gender norms and health behaviors

Fleming

Agnew-Brune

2015

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Gender norms are recognized as one of the major social determinants of health and gender norms can have implications for an individual’s health behaviors. This paper reviews the recent advances in research on the role of gender norms on health behaviors most associated with morbidity and mortality. We find that (1) the study of gender norms and health behaviors is varied across different types of health behaviors, (2) research on masculinity and masculine norms appears to have taken on an increasing proportion of studies on the relationship between gender norms and health, and (3) we are seeing new and varied populations integrated into the study of gender norms and health behaviors.

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“…In particular, the media are held responsible for the transmission of messages about the ideal body, which for boys and men is a lean but highly muscular, V-shaped figure, often referred to as the 'muscular mesomorph' (Mishkind, Rodin, Silberstein, & StriegelMoore, 1986). Although most of the existing research has investigated women, a few studies have suggested that exposure to idealized muscular media images is similarly related to lower body esteem (Hobza & Rochlen, 2009;Hobza, Walker, Yakushko, & Peugh, 2007), increased muscle dissatisfaction (Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004;Hargreaves & Tiggemann, 2009) and drive for muscularity in adult men (Cramblitt & Pritchard, 2013). However, two studies with adolescent boys found no relationship between body image or eating disorder symptomatology and magazine exposure (Jones, Vigfusdottir, & Lee, 2004) or thin-ideal media exposure (selected television programs and magazines) (Harrison, 2000).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%