Sexual objectification in women's daily lives: A smartphone ecological momentary assessment study
- 2 August 2016
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Social Psychology
- Vol. 56 (2) , 314-333
Abstract
Sexual objectification, particularly of young women, is highly prevalent in modern industrialized societies. Although there is plenty of experimental and cross‐sectional research on objectification, prospective studies investigating the prevalence and psychological impact of objectifying events in daily life are scarce. We used ecological momentary assessment to track the occurrence of objectifying events over 1 week in the daily lives of young women ( N = 81). Participants reported being targeted by a sexually objectifying event – most often the objectifying gaze – approximately once every 2 days and reported witnessing sexual objectification of others approximately 1.35 times per day. Further, multilevel linear regression analyses showed that being targeted by sexual objectification was associated with a substantial increase in state self‐objectification. Overall, individual differences had little impact in moderating these effects.Keywords
Funding Information
- Australian Research Council (DP150103053)
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