Drakopoulou, Garyfalia (2022) Disentangling the Relationships between Unhealthy-Perfectionism, Social Comparison Tendency, Body-Envy and Weight-Loss Dieting in College Women: A moderated mediation analysis. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The study used the sociocultural theory to explain the relationship between upward social comparison, body envy, unhealthy perfectionism, and weight-loss dieting in college women. We hypothesized that body envy would mediate the relationship between upward social comparison and WLD such that women that engage more frequently in upward comparisons, will feel more often body envy and as a result would result in WLD. We also hypothesized that unhealthy perfectionism would moderate this relationship such that the mediation pathway would be stronger for women higher in unhealthy perfectionism. Finally, it was expected that these effects would occur over and above the self-reported body size (BMI). An online questionnaire was used with a convenience sample including 227 German college women who completed measures of: upward social comparison tendency, perfectionism, frequency of body envy and weight-loss dieting. A bootstrap analysis using PROCESS by Hayes 2013 was used in SPSS but did not support the moderated mediation model. However, further data exploration found that body envy mediates the relationship of UPACT and WLD as well as unhealthy perfectionism and WLD. The findings add to the current literature by explaining additional mechanisms by which upward comparisons and unhealthy perfectionism influence dieting in women. Keywords: : sociocultural theory, body-envy, upward social comparison (UPACT), unhealthy perfectionism, weight-loss dieting (WLD).
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Dalley, S.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2022 13:41 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2022 13:41 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1381 |
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