RT Article
T1 Body Image and Celebrity Worship
JF Implicit religion
VO 17
IS 2
SP 223
OP 234
A1 Aruguete, Mara
A1 Edman, Jeanne
A1 Green, Thomas
A1 Griffith, James
A1 McCutcheon, Lynn E.
LA English
PB Equinox
YR 2014
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1690206179
AB We surveyed college students to determine the relationship between body image and celebrity admiration. We administered the Celebrity Attitude Scale (CAS), the Self-Objectification Questionnaire (SOQ), the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), and a slightly modified version of the (ESS,) to 279 participants from three universities and one college. We hypothesized that, as the tendency to worship celebrities increased, so would self-objectification, enjoyment of sexualization, and eating pathology. We thought that this would be particularly true for women and those whose favorite celebrity was perceived as being physically attractive. Results confirmed that men (but not women) who tend to worship celebrities are more likely to show eating disorders and enjoy being sexualized. Our modified version of the ESS has good reliability, and we showed that men are ju st as likely to enjoy being sexualized as women are. Further, the correlation between ESS and EAT scores was stronger for men than for women. Implicationsfor thefurther study of attitudes toward celebrities and the need to include males in research on enjoyment of being sexualized were discussed.
K1 Body Image
K1 COLLEGE students; Research
K1 Celebrity Attitudes
K1 Celebrity Worship
K1 Eating Attitudes
K1 REPUTATION (Sociology)
K1 SOCIAL Physique Anxiety Scale
K1 Social aspects
K1 SOCIAL physique anxiety
K1 Self-Objectification
K1 Sexualization
DO 10.1558/imre.v17i2.223