Meta-analytic moderators of experimental exposure to media portrayals of women on female appearance satisfaction: Social comparisons as automatic processes
SC Want�- Body image, 2009 - Elsevier
Experimental exposure to idealized media portrayals of women is thought to induce social
comparisons in female viewers and thereby to be generally detrimental to female viewers'
satisfaction with their own appearance. Through meta-analysis, the present paper examines
the impact of moderators of this effect, some identified and updated from a prior meta-
analysis and some that have hitherto received little attention. Participants' pre-existing
appearance concerns and the processing instructions participants were given when�…
comparisons in female viewers and thereby to be generally detrimental to female viewers'
satisfaction with their own appearance. Through meta-analysis, the present paper examines
the impact of moderators of this effect, some identified and updated from a prior meta-
analysis and some that have hitherto received little attention. Participants' pre-existing
appearance concerns and the processing instructions participants were given when�…