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Tween Television and Peers: Reinforcing Social Agents in Early Adolescents' Body Surveillance and Self‐Objectification
Author(s) -
Rousseau Ann,
Eggermont Steven
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12367
Subject(s) - psychology , media literacy , perspective (graphical) , objectification , sociocultural evolution , developmental psychology , internalization , sexualization , reciprocal , social psychology , media use , sociocultural perspective , mechanism (biology) , human sexuality , sociology , medicine , gender studies , pedagogy , philosophy , linguistics , epistemology , artificial intelligence , computer science , anthropology , receptor
Sociocultural models of body image posit that the media and peers play a role in early adolescents' body dissatisfaction. Introducing a sociocultural perspective on youth sexualization, the present three‐wave panel study ( N = 968, M age = 11.30) sought to examine the role of tween television and peer appearance conversations in early adolescents' body surveillance and self‐objectification over time. Special attention was given to the mediating role of media internalization in these relationships. The results showed evidence for a reciprocal interaction between media internalization and peer appearance conversations and identified this reciprocal interaction as the underlying mechanism linking tween television exposure to higher levels of body surveillance and self‐objectification 1 year later. Implications for body image and media literacy programs are discussed.