Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

2022

DOI

10.31274/itaa.15875

Publication Title

International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings

Volume

79

Issue

1

Pages

1-4

Conference Name

International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference, October 26-29, 2022, Denver, Colorado

Abstract

Will women who use their sexuality as a source of power, empowering themselves through self-sexualization, experience negative consequences resulting from sexually objectifying experiences? This study explored the relationship between self-sexualization and sexually objectifying experiences, which leads to body shame, with age as a moderator. An online questionnaire was created to measure the four variables (self-empowering sexualization, general self-sexualization, sexually objectified experiences; body shame). A total of 308 female respondents participated through MTurk, and the data were analyzed with SEM. The findings showed that not all self-sexualizing women experienced a negative consequence from sexually objectified experiences; the use of self-sexualization for power was not related to negative consequences. However, young women were at greater risk from self-sexualization because regardless of differences in self-sexualization, self-sexualization can not only lead to more sexual objectification but also directly lead to a feeling of body shame even in the absence of sexual objectification.

Rights

© 2022 The authors.

Published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Original Publication Citation

Choi, D. & Lee, H., (2022) The relationship between self-sexualization and sexually objectified experience, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings 79(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.31274/itaa.15875

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