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There's a paper by Grabe, Ward, and Hyde in this month's issue of Psychological Bulletin that presents a meta-analysis of 77 studies (correlational and experimental) on the relationship between the media's presentation of (overly) thin women and women's body image issues (from the shrink rap). The studies used a host of measures of body image, including measures of things like perceived body shape, anoretic cognition, body dissatisfaction, thin-ideal internalization, restrained eating, "bulimic symptomatology," appearance self-esteem, etc. For the relationship between media presentations of thin women and these various constructs, the average effect sizes ranged from -.28 to -.39, indicating small to moderate relationships.
If you have a subscription, you can read the paper here. Unfortunately, I can't find a free version of the paper anywhere, but if you really want to read it (remember, meta-analyses are boring as hell), send me an email.
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Please email me a copy rohaan@mac.com
Regard
Posted by: Rohaan | May 13, 2008 5:14 PM
Hi,
Thanks for alerting people to this interesting piece of research. I'm going to be doing an episode for my podcast on body image. If you could send me a copy that would be great. Appreciate it.
Michael
Posted by: Michael Britt | June 14, 2008 6:51 AM
this article helps me a lot in doing my reaction paper. nice..
Posted by: mi amore pot, | August 2, 2008 9:09 AM