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The Joy And Taboo Of Menstruation (Body Image And Self-Objectification), Lola Justine Mainieri Jan 2024

The Joy And Taboo Of Menstruation (Body Image And Self-Objectification), Lola Justine Mainieri

Senior Projects Spring 2024

This study strove to understand the correlation between menstrual attitudes, body image, and self objectification. Participants were menstruators that were garnered from the Bard College population. They proceed through a Google Form that was compiled from the the Menstrual Joy Questionnaire (MJQ), the Menstrual Distress Questionnaire (MDQ), the Self-Objectification Questionnaire (SOQ) and finally the Body Appreciation Scale (BAS) (Delaney et al., 1988, Vannuccini et al., 2021, Dahl, 2014, Tylka & Wood-Barcalow, 2015). Participants accrued a score from each questionnaire that was then used to run the four separate correlations. A significant positive correlation was found between the Menstrual Joy and …


The Effect Of Facebook On Body Dissatisfaction: Ethnicity As A Possible Moderator, Haley E. Brown Jan 2018

The Effect Of Facebook On Body Dissatisfaction: Ethnicity As A Possible Moderator, Haley E. Brown

Senior Projects Spring 2018

Eating disorders have demonstrated the most extreme rise in prevalence out of all the mental illnesses since 1990 (Lozano et al., 2012). However, research has largely neglected to investigate cross-cultural effects on disordered eating, and thus, findings may only apply to Western samples. Only two known prior studies have investigated effects of social media on disordered eating cross-culturally. This project helps fill a substantial research gap by examining social media effects on body image concerns in a culturally diverse sample of Australian undergraduate women (N= 185). The effect of a ten-minute Facebook exposure on women’s body dissatisfaction and appearance comparison …