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Enjoyment of sexualization: is it different for men?
Author(s) -
Visser Beth A.,
Sultani Farah,
Choma Becky L.,
Pozzebon Julie A.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/jasp.12241
Subject(s) - psychology , sexualization , shame , objectification , construct (python library) , social psychology , attractiveness , confirmatory factor analysis , narcissism , personality , developmental psychology , human sexuality , structural equation modeling , gender studies , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , epistemology , sociology , computer science , psychoanalysis , programming language
We elucidated the Enjoyment of Sexualization ( ES ) construct in a sample of 206 female and 118 male undergraduate students. Our male ES Scale had high reliability, and confirmatory factor analyses indicated that a univariate structure was appropriate for both men and women. ES added to the prediction of self‐esteem and number of sexual partners (but not body shame) after controlling for self‐objectification; gender did not moderate these relationships. The relationship between ES and number of sexual partners was moderated by attractiveness such that individuals who believed themselves to be more attractive had more sexual partners at high levels of ES . Furthermore, ES was distinguishable from the conceptually‐related self‐objectification construct with regard to B ig Fi ve personality. Finally, results suggested that ES might be less harmful than self‐objectification.