“…To further disguise the true purpose of the study, participants were also asked about their satisfaction with their romantic relationship, financial status, housing situation, occupation/study, and social life. Previous research has shown VAS to be reliable and sensitive measures of changes in mood and body satisfaction among college women, and thus are ideal for pre–post experimental designs (Fardouly et al, 2015; Heinberg and Thompson, 1995; Prichard and Tiggemann, 2012). In the current study, the positive mood scale demonstrated acceptable internal consistency at pre- (α = .69), and post-exposure (α = .75), the negative mood scale demonstrated good internal consistency at pre- (α = .77), and post-exposure (α = .80), and the body satisfaction scale demonstrated good to excellent internal consistency at pre- (α = .84) and post-exposure (α = .92).…”