Media representations play an important role in producing sociocultural pressures. Despite
social and legal progress in civil rights, restrictive gender-based representations appear to …

Sexual objectification (treating a person as a body or collection of body parts) involves a
cultural prioritizing of women's sexual appearance and appeal over other attributes. Sexual …

We examined how gender, body mass, race, age, and sexual orientation were linked to
appearance evaluation, overweight preoccupation, and body image-related quality of life …

Objectification theory proposes that widespread sexualization causes women to engage in
surveillance of their appearance. We integrated this concept into a model with constructs …

We examined how demographic factors (gender, sexual orientation, racial group, age, body
mass) were linked to measures of sociocultural appearance concerns derived from …

According to the tripartite influence model, body dissatisfaction is shaped by internalizing
cultural appearance ideals stemming from appearance-related family, peer, and media …

Most body image studies assess only linear relations between predictors and outcome
variables, relying on techniques such as multiple Linear Regression. These predictor …

Racial minority men and women face a wide variety of appearance-related pressures,
including ones connected to their cultural backgrounds and phenotypic features associated …

Body image is a critical component of an individual's sexual experiences. This makes it
critical to identify demographic and sociocultural correlates of sexuality-related body image …

Given existing empirical support for the tripartite influence and social comparison models to
explain variance in body dissatisfaction and disordered eating across diverse populations in …