Garcia Keinanen, Maria Elizabeth (2024) Disentangling upward social comparison tendency, body-envy and perfectionism on dieting in a sample of college women: a moderated mediation analysis. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
There has been a rise in the prevalence of restrictive dieting and eating disorders in women due to the beauty ideal becoming thinner. The sociocultural theory suggests that upward social comparison (USC) and the emotions that stem from it may explain this phenomenon. Therefore, the first prediction in this study was that women’s tendency to compare upwardly (upward social comparison tendency; USCT) towards the thin ideal would increase their body-envy tendency (BET) which would in turn increase their weight-loss dieting (WLD) attempts. BET would act as a mediator in this relationship. Research also suggests that maladaptive perfectionism (MP) might increase the susceptibility of women to compare upwardly and experience envy. Therefore, the second prediction in this study was that higher MP would enhance the relationship between USCT, BET, and WLD and that these effects would occur above and beyond BMI and adaptive perfectionism. Therefore, a moderated mediation model was tested. A convenience sample of 205 college women was gathered with a mean age of 21.35 (SD = 2.56) and a battery of questionnaires was provided to them. A bootstrapped moderated mediation analysis using PROCESS was performed, which was non-significant. Thus, two mediation analyses were performed with MP and USCT as explanatory variables with BET as a mediator. These were found to be significant. These results suggest that women high in both MP and USCT should be targeted in the management of BET and WLD.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Dalley, S.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2024 08:53 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2024 08:53 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3959 |
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