Individuals’ perception of others’ self-esteem,psychological well-being and attractiveness: Role of body size and peers’ comments among Japanese and Americans |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 2504A Whitis Avenue, Austin, TX 78712-0115, USA;2. Department of Communicology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, 2560 Campus Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA;1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA;2. Children''s Orthopaedic Center, Children''s Hospital Los Angeles, 4650 W Sunset Boulevard, Mailstop #69, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA;3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, 06100 Sihhiye-Ankara/Turkey;4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, 2222 Welborn St, Dallas, TX 75219, USA;5. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Rainbow Babies and Children''s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, 11100 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA;6. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, 601 North Caroline Street JHOC #5215, Baltimore, Maryland 21287-0882, USA;7. San Diego Center for Spinal Disorders, 4130 La Jolla Village Dr, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA;8. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, New YorkePresbyterian Morgan Stanley Children''s Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, 3959 Broadway, New York, NY 10032, USA;1. School of Social Sciences and Psychology & Marcs Institute for Brain and Behaviour, University of Western Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia;2. Department of Veterans Affairs, New Jersey Health Care System, East Orange, NJ, USA;3. Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University—Newark, 197 University Avenue, Newark, NJ 07102, USA;4. Al-Quds Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Quds University, Abu Dis, Palestine;1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China;2. Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;3. Tsinghua National Lab for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;1. Division of Respirology, Neurology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan;2. Respiratory Medicine, Mitsui Memorial Hospital, Tokyo, Japan;3. Department of Thoracic Oncology and Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Metropolitan Cancer and Infectious Diseases Center Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan;4. Department of Respiratory Medicine and Medical Oncology, Yokohama Municipal Citizen’s Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan;5. Division of Respiratory Medicine, Kanagawa Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center, Kanagawa, Japan;6. Department of Respiratory Internal Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Yokohama-City Seibu Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan;7. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Fujisawa City Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan;8. Department of Biostatistics, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Kanagawa, Japan;9. Department of Biomedical Statistics and Bioinformatics, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan;10. Thoracic Oncology Research Group, Kanagawa, Japan;11. Department of Medical Oncology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan;12. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan |
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| Abstract: | From a cross-cultural perspective, this study investigates how individuals form impressions of others’ self-esteem, psychological well-being, and physical attractiveness as a function of others’ body size as well as messages these others receive from their peers. Mock-up Facebook profile pages in which the body size of the profile owner (thin vs. overweight) and peer-generated messages (accepting vs. thin-encouraging) were manipulated in the study. After viewing a Facebook profile page online, American and Japanese females completed a questionnaire. Japanese, but not Americans, (a) believed a profile owner who received thin-promoting messages to have higher psychological well-being than a profile owner who received accepting messages, (b) assumed an overweight profile owner to have lower self-esteem than a thin profile owner, and (c) perceived a thin profile owner as more physically attractive than an overweight profile owner. |
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| Keywords: | Cross-cultural research Fat talk Facebook Weight bias Psychological well-being Self-esteem |
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