In the article “Do Appearance Focused Cognitive Distortions Moderate the Relationship between Social Comparisons to Peers and Media Images and Body Image Disturbance?” authors Ridolf Danielle, Myers Taryn, Crowther Janis, and Ciesla Jeffery conduct a test where they measure the effects of peers and media on a women’s view of themselves. Both media and peers have shown to be the primary source of identifying beauty standards. The reasons for Myers, Crowther, and Ciesla testing “was to [understand the] associations between naturally occurring appearance focused social comparisons and body dissatisfaction and body checking and affects among undergraduate women in the United States.” and “examine the moderating role of appearance focused cognitive
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Festinger (1954) figured that when a person felt uncertain about themselves, they then look around them at others and compare themselves to them. Festinger (1954) also believed that a person looks up at someone they consider superior to them it is too better themselves .However a newer resource challenges that people are more influenced by how alike they are. Therefore it is believable that the self-comparison between a women and a peer would be a more positive reaction then that of a women looking at something like a skinny model in a magazine. However in a review written by Goesz and colleagues found that “women who viewed average size models, plus size models, or inanimate objects” (Goesz, 2002) had less of a negative effect on the woman’s self-esteem. The authors of the main article we are talking about then go to talk about how some cognitive distortions can cause issues in everyday life. Issues such as what Cash analyzed “beliefs that physical appearance will negatively impact one’s future or that a lack of physical attractiveness may prevent one from engaging in desired activities or achieving personal goals.”(Cash, …show more content…
The test itself was put together online where 99 women had volunteered (though only 93 where accounted for in the final results). Majority of these women were between the ages eighteen and twenty-eight and where of different nationalities. The test itself was conducted using a Personal Data Assistant (PDA) which sent alarms with questions to the participants and collecting there answers. First thing the women participating had to do was give “[demographic information:] age, school year, race, past eating disorder treatments and… height and weight” (Ridolf and Myers and Crewther and Ciesla). The PDA was programed with many questions such as: the opening questions, Assessment of Body Image Cognitive Distortions (ABCD), body shape questionnaire, media and peer social comparisons, state self-esteem scale, and post study reactivity measure. The first question the questionnaire would ask is along the lines of if they compared their shape within the times between alarms. ABCD asked 18 questions to make the women really think about their appearance with using a 0-4 scale of how much they relate to the statement. Body shape questionnaire is 34 questions using a 1-6 scale on dissatisfaction with their size and looks. Media and peer social comparison had asked if between alarms if they compared themselves to media, what type, and how they feel after using the 1-5 scale. The state self-esteem scale was 20 questions
Festinger (1954) figured that when a person felt uncertain about themselves, they then look around them at others and compare themselves to them. Festinger (1954) also believed that a person looks up at someone they consider superior to them it is too better themselves .However a newer resource challenges that people are more influenced by how alike they are. Therefore it is believable that the self-comparison between a women and a peer would be a more positive reaction then that of a women looking at something like a skinny model in a magazine. However in a review written by Goesz and colleagues found that “women who viewed average size models, plus size models, or inanimate objects” (Goesz, 2002) had less of a negative effect on the woman’s self-esteem. The authors of the main article we are talking about then go to talk about how some cognitive distortions can cause issues in everyday life. Issues such as what Cash analyzed “beliefs that physical appearance will negatively impact one’s future or that a lack of physical attractiveness may prevent one from engaging in desired activities or achieving personal goals.”(Cash, …show more content…
The test itself was put together online where 99 women had volunteered (though only 93 where accounted for in the final results). Majority of these women were between the ages eighteen and twenty-eight and where of different nationalities. The test itself was conducted using a Personal Data Assistant (PDA) which sent alarms with questions to the participants and collecting there answers. First thing the women participating had to do was give “[demographic information:] age, school year, race, past eating disorder treatments and… height and weight” (Ridolf and Myers and Crewther and Ciesla). The PDA was programed with many questions such as: the opening questions, Assessment of Body Image Cognitive Distortions (ABCD), body shape questionnaire, media and peer social comparisons, state self-esteem scale, and post study reactivity measure. The first question the questionnaire would ask is along the lines of if they compared their shape within the times between alarms. ABCD asked 18 questions to make the women really think about their appearance with using a 0-4 scale of how much they relate to the statement. Body shape questionnaire is 34 questions using a 1-6 scale on dissatisfaction with their size and looks. Media and peer social comparison had asked if between alarms if they compared themselves to media, what type, and how they feel after using the 1-5 scale. The state self-esteem scale was 20 questions