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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Gender Studies

Background:

  • Self-objectification involves viewing oneself as an external observer, focusing on appearance or sexual objectification.
  • Internalized sexual objectification is a specific aspect of self-objectification that warrants further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and psychometrically evaluate the Sexual Self-Objectification Scale.
  • To assess the scale's factor structure, validity, and reliability.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: Psychometric evaluation with 500 women online (Amazon's Mechanical Turk) using factor analysis for scale structure and validity.
  • Study 2: Confirmation of scale structure and test-retest reliability assessment with 355 college women.

Main Results:

  • Item factor analysis supported a 17-item, two-factor scale measuring self-concept/presentation and partner-specific sexual self-objectification.
  • Scale structure was confirmed, and construct validity was supported by associations with related constructs.
  • The scale demonstrated good test-retest reliability.

Conclusions:

  • The Sexual Self-Objectification Scale is a psychometrically sound and distinct measure.
  • The scale can be utilized to examine sexual self-objectification and its relation to objectification theory.