"Pretty Pressure" From Peers, Parents, and the Media: A Longitudinal Study of Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity
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Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J
Waters, Allison M
Farrell, Lara J
Nesdale, Drew
Downey, Geraldine
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Drawing from the tripartite sociocultural model of body image, the researchers examined whether direct messages and modeling from peers, parents, and media were concurrently and prospectively associated with appearance-based rejection sensitivity (appearance-RS) in young adolescents (Mage = 12.0 years). Appearance-RS was higher among those who concurrently reported more appearance-related teasing and pressure by peers, more parent teasing, and greater acceptance of media appearance ideals. In prospective analyses, greater increases in appearance-RS over 1 year were found for adolescents who perceived higher levels of parental appearance-related teasing and negative attitudes about their own appearance. Moderation analyses indicated the positive prospective association between parental negative appearance attitudes and appearance-RS was found in younger but not older participants. Gender did not moderate associations.
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Journal of Research on Adolescence
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© 2017 Society for Research on Adolescence. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: “Pretty Pressure” From Peers, Parents, and the Media: A Longitudinal Study of Appearance-Based Rejection Sensitivity, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2017 which has been published in final form at 10.1111/jora.12310. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms)
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