Enjoyment of Sexualization and Feminism: Relationships with Sexual Self-Schema and Psychosexual Health

Barnett, Michael D.; Maciel, Idalia V.; Gerner, Mallory

doi:10.1007/s12119-018-9515-5

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“…So, sexual objectification experience is one of the important factors to predict female students' selfie-posting behavior. Mediation analysis showed that Enjoyment of Sexualization plays a partial mediating role between sexual objectification experience and selfie-posting behavior, which verified hypothesis H2 and is consistent with the previous research (Barnett, Maciel, & Gerner, 2018;Visser, Sultani, Choma et al, 2014). Impression management theory points out that individuals tend to adopt strategies to control others' impressions on themselves to achieve a good impression (Liu, 2006), such as presenting or publishing information that is beneficial to their body image.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

The Influence of Sexual Objectification Experience on Chinese Female College Students’ Selfie-Posting Behavior: A Mediated Moderation Model

Huang¹,

Zhao²,

Ma³

et al. 2019

PSYCH

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Sexual objectification experience is that person experienced life with objectified information. In order to explore the influence of the sexual objectification experience on female college students' selfie-posting behavior, 700 female college students were surveyed with the Interpersonal Sexual Objectification scale, Enjoyment of Sexualization scale, Social Network Selfile-posting scale and Imaginary Audience Ideation scale. The results show that: 1) Sexual objectification experience is significantly correlated with female college students' selfie-posting behavior and enjoyment of sexualization. Female college students' enjoyment of sexualization is significantly correlated with selfie-posting behavior. 2) Sexual objectification experience can predict female college students' selfie-posting behavior through the partial mediating role of enjoyment of sexualization, and the mediating role of enjoyment of sexualization is moderated by female college students' imaginary audience ideation. This research revealed the mechanism of the relationship between sexual objectification experience and selfie-posting behavior, which helps to guide female college students to actively and healthfully participate in social activities.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

The Influence of Sexual Objectification Experience on Chinese Female College Students’ Selfie-Posting Behavior: A Mediated Moderation Model

Huang¹,

Zhao²,

Ma³

et al. 2019

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“…Moreover, it has been found that for men, sexiness may not be merely a matter of body appearance but rather of power and dominance, aspects usually related to gender roles (see Smolak et al, 2014). Overall, this suggests that men's sexual image is not as easily impacted by women's view of them, as women's sexual image is by the opinion of men (Barnett et al, 2018). In other words, the EoS may occur in both genders, but it might be related to different constructs, due to the endorsement of traditional gender norms and roles.…”

Section: Enjoyment Of Sexualization Sexual Empowerment and Ambivalent...mentioning

confidence: 89%

“…As Visser and colleagues (2014) argued, men's enjoyment of receiving sexual attention when displaying bare, shaved chests may not be vastly different from women's enjoyment of wearing revealing clothing. However, other scholars suggest that men's enjoyment of sexualization is not associated with how they conceive of themselves sexually (Barnett et al, 2018). While women who enjoy sexualization express a desire for men to appreciate their appearance (Liss et al, 2011), men's enjoyment of sexualization is more rooted in their desire for an ideal body image (Grieve & Helmick, 2008;Oehlhof et al, 2009).…”

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Enjoyment of Sexualization in Men and Women: Relationships with Ambivalent Sexism and Body Image Coping Strategies

Rollero

León

Martini

et al. 2022

Sexuality & Culture

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Enjoyment of sexualization (EoS) occurs when people find appearance-based sexual attention from others to be positive and rewarding. Scholars have not consistently established if enjoyment of being sexualized may be a form of sexual empowerment, promoting positive body acceptance, control, and self-care, or instead an endorsement of sexist ideologies, based on the idea that being sexually appealing to men is a component of the feminine gender role. In order to shed light on this, the present study aimed to analyze whether enjoyment of sexualization may foster adaptive or maladaptive coping strategies in case of threat to a positive body image. We also considered the role of ambivalent sexism in EoS processes, as well as that of self-esteem in body coping strategies. Considering the increasing sexualization of men in Western societies, the same relationships were tested in both men and women adults by means of a multigroup moderation analysis. Participants were 513 subjects (32.3% men, M = 25.97 years old) recruited from the Italian general population. Results showed that enjoyment of sexualization was positively related to both adaptive (i.e., positive rational acceptance) and maladaptive strategies (i.e., appearance fixing). Hostile sexism was positively linked to EoS in both men and women, whereas benevolent sexism was positively linked to EoS in the case of women and negatively in the case of men. Implications about the ambivalent nature of enjoyment of sexualization are discussed.

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“…Empirical evidence exists about the positive effects of ES on psychological functioning. For instance, ES is positively related to self‐esteem (Liss et al, 2011; Visser et al, 2014), feelings of empowerment (Erchull & Liss, 2013), and sexual esteem (Barnett et al, 2018). ES was also found to moderate the impact of mild forms of objectification experiences (e.g., being stared at) on self‐esteem, with positive effects on self‐esteem for those with higher levels of ES.…”

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Perceived sexualization of the work environment's influence on well‐being, attitudes, and behaviors: The roles of organizational dehumanization and enjoyment of sexualization

Demoulin

Brison

Stinglhamber

2023

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The present research investigates whether employees' perceptions of being dehumanized by their organization act as an underlying mechanism in the relationship between sexualized work environments (SWE) and their detrimental consequences. The research also examines the moderating role of enjoyment of sexualization (ES) in the relationship between SWE and organizational dehumanization (OD). First, a cross‐sectional study (N = 350) showed that SWE positively relate to OD which, in turn, negatively affects employees' well‐being (i.e., increased emotional exhaustion, increased psychological strains), attitudes (i.e., decreased job satisfaction), and behaviors at work (i.e., increased turnover intentions). A second study (N = 433) replicated these findings and further revealed the moderating role of employees' ES. Specifically, the relationship between SWE and OD proved to be stronger at lower levels of ES. Finally, additional exploratory analyses highlighted that the moderating role of ES was not conditional upon employees' gender. Theoretical contributions and promising avenues for future research as well as are discussed.

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Enjoyment of Sexualization and Feminism: Relationships with Sexual Self-Schema and Psychosexual Health

Cited by 13 publications

References 24 publications

The Influence of Sexual Objectification Experience on Chinese Female College Students’ Selfie-Posting Behavior: A Mediated Moderation Model

The Influence of Sexual Objectification Experience on Chinese Female College Students’ Selfie-Posting Behavior: A Mediated Moderation Model

Enjoyment of Sexualization in Men and Women: Relationships with Ambivalent Sexism and Body Image Coping Strategies

Perceived sexualization of the work environment's influence on well‐being, attitudes, and behaviors: The roles of organizational dehumanization and enjoyment of sexualization

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