Boer, Puck P. de (2024) Disentangling Relations Between Upward Body Comparison Tendency, Self-Compassion and Body Envy on Dieting: A Moderated Mediation Analysis. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
In this cross-sectional study, it was predicted that body envy tendency would mediate the relationship between upward social comparison tendency and weight-loss dieting, such that more upward social comparisons lead to more episodes of body envy, leading to more weight-loss dieting. It was also predicted that this mediation pathway would be moderated by self-compassion and that the moderated mediation model would occur over and above body dissatisfaction. Participants were 205 female college students who filled out a questionnaire with demographic features and measures of upward social comparison tendency, body envy tendency, weight-loss dieting, self-compassion, and body dissatisfaction. The results suggest that self-compassion did not moderate the mediation model, thus no support was found for the moderated mediation model. However, exploratory analysis of 2 mediation models was carried out. The first mediation model that predicted a higher upward social comparison tendency would lead to a higher body envy tendency, leading to more weight-loss dieting was significant. The second mediation pathway that predicted that self-compassion would lead to lower body envy tendency and therefore less weight-loss dieting was also significant. Women with a high upward social comparison tendency and low self-compassion should be targeted for intervention using media literacy and self-compassion enhancement.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Dalley, S.E. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2024 10:06 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Jul 2024 10:06 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4022 |
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