vesile@trabzon.edu.tr
Ezgi SAYLAN1, Vesile SOYYİĞİT2*
1 Research Assistant, Artvin Coruh University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Program of Guidance and Psychological Counselling, Artvin, Turkey. (ezgisaylan@artvin.edu.tr) ORCID: 0000-0002-8255-7579
2 Corresponding Author, Prof., Trabzon University, Fatih Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Program of Guidance and Psychological Counselling, Trabzon, Turkey. (vesile@trabzon.edu.tr) ORCID: 0000-0001-8968-408X
Abstract
The ideals of beauty and appearance imposed by today’s popular society are becoming increasingly important in all stages of life. Correspondingly, research on the concepts of self-objectification, appearance anxiety, body image, and well-being has increased in recent years. Hence, this study aims to investigate whether social appearance anxiety and body image mediate the relation between self-objectification and subjective well-being in a Turkish sample. The study included 480 participants between the ages of 18 and 30. Participants were assessed using measurement tools for self-objectification, social appearance anxiety, body image, and subjective well-being. According to the serial mediation analysis, self-objectification had a negative effect on subjective well-being that was statistically significant. Additionally, it was concluded that social appearance anxiety and body image play a mediating role in the relationship between self-objectification and subjective well-being. It can be argued that the results obtained have both theoretical and practical importance for the related literature.
Keywords: Self-objectification, subjective well-being, social appearance anxiety, body image, young adults.
Please cite this article as: Saylan, E., & Soyyiğit, V. (2023). SELF-OBJECTIFICATION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING: A SERIAL MEDIATION ANALYSIS ON THE ROLE OF SOCIAL APPEARANCE ANXIETY AND BODY IMAGE. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 23(2), 119-136.
DOI: 10.24193/jebp.2023.2.13
Published online: 2023/09/01
Published print: 2023/09/01
