Journal•ISSN: 0361-6843
Psychology of Women Quarterly
SAGE Publishing
About: Psychology of Women Quarterly is an academic journal published by SAGE Publishing. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Poison control & Psychology. It has an ISSN identifier of 0361-6843. Over the lifetime, 2351 publications have been published receiving 123618 citations.
Topics: Poison control, Psychology, Human sexuality, Sexual abuse, Feminism
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer objectification theory as a framework for understanding the experiential consequences of being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body, and propose a framework to understand the effects of objectification on women.
Abstract: This article offers objectification theory as a framework for understanding the experiential consequences of being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body. Objectification the...
4,003 citations
TL;DR: Theorists have proposed that men and women and those in various occupational groups should differ in their susceptibility to primitive emotional contagion as discussed by the authors, and they have found that women are more susceptible to emotional contagions than men.
Abstract: Theorists have proposed that men and women and those in various occupational groups should differ in their susceptibility to primitive emotional contagion. Study 1 was designed to explore the exten...
1,640 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a scale was developed and validated to measure objectified body consciousness (OBC) in young women (N = 502) and middle-aged women(N = 151) using feminist theory about the social construction of the female body.
Abstract: Using feminist theory about the social construction of the female body, a scale was developed and validated to measure objectified body consciousness (OBC) in young women (N = 502) and middle-aged women (N = 151). Scales used were (a) surveillance (viewing the body as an outside observer), (b) body shame (feeling shame when the body does not conform), and (c) appearance control beliefs. The three scales were demonstrated to be distinct dimensions with acceptable reliabilities. Surveillance and body shame correlated negatively with body esteem. Control beliefs correlated positively with body esteem in young women and were related to frequency of restricted eating in all samples. All three scales were positively related to disordered eating. The relationship of OBC to women's body experience is discussed.
1,433 citations
TL;DR: This paper summarized a set of social and psychological factors that Eccles and her colleagues have been studying for the past 15 years in an effort to understand the occupational and educational choices of women and men.
Abstract: Despite recent efforts to increase the participation of women in advanced educational training and high-status professional fields, women and men are still concentrated in different occupations and educational programs, and women are still underrepresented in many high-status occupational fields—particularly those associated with physical science, engineering, and applied mathematics. Many factors, ranging from outright discrimination to the processes associated with gender role socialization, contribute to these gendered patterns of educational and occupational choices. This paper summarizes a set of social and psychological factors that Eccles and her colleagues have been studying for the past 15 years in an effort to understand the occupational and educational choices of women and men. The paper summarizes the key features of the theoretical model they developed and provides an overview of the empirical support now available for key aspects of this model. The implications of this model for understandin...
1,280 citations
TL;DR: Shattered Assumptions: Toward a New Psychology of Trauma, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman as mentioned in this paper, 256 pp. ISBN 0-02-916015-4.Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman. New York: Basic Books, 1992.
Abstract: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence — from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, Judith Lewis Herman. New York: Basic Books, 1992. 276 pp. $27.00. ISBN 0-465-08765–5.Shattered Assumptions: Toward A New Psychology of Trauma, Ronnie Janoff-Bulman. New York: The Free Press, 1992, 256 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-02-916015–4.
1,257 citations