Schade, P.L. (2022) Exploring Relationships between Upward Comparison Tendency, Thin-ideal Internalization, and Body-admiration on Weight-loss Dieting in College Women: A Moderated Mediation Analysis. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Women are frequently presented with the western thin body ideal. Those women high in tendency to compare their appearance actively seek the comparison to the thin-ideal. Experiencing admiration for the compared other can motivate women to engage in weight-loss dieting (WLD) to imitate the thin-ideal which is a risk factor for eating pathology. It was hypothesized that women who score high on upward physical appearance comparison tendency (UPACT) experience more frequent episodes of body-admiration and following this engage in more WLD. Furthermore, that this mediation pathway will be moderated by thin-ideal internalization, such that thin-ideal internalization will increase the frequency of body-admiration and thus the tendency to engage in WLD. A sample of 237 college women, who are native German speakers, with no known history of eating pathology participated in an online questionnaire that assessed UPACT, frequency of body-admiration, thin-ideal internalization, and WLD. PROCESS model 7 was used for bootstrap analyses (Hayes, 2022) and the results showed that the moderated mediation model was not significant. However further exploration of the data revealed that body-admiration mediates the relationship of UPACT and WLD. This shows that women who engage in UPACT experience more frequent episodes of body-admiration and are more likely to engage in WLD. Interventions to possibly prevent college women from developing eating disorders should therefore target women who frequently engage in UPACT and the experience of body-admiration.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Dalley, S.E. and Kuschel, A. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jul 2022 08:12 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jul 2022 08:12 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1035 |
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