Assessing Women’s Negative Commentary on Their Own Bodies

@article{EngelnMaddox2012AssessingWN,
  title={Assessing Women’s Negative Commentary on Their Own Bodies},
  author={Renee Engeln-Maddox and Rachel H Salk and S. Miller},
  journal={Psychology of Women Quarterly},
  year={2012},
  volume={36},
  pages={162 - 178}
}
  • Renee Engeln-Maddox, Rachel H Salk, S. Miller
  • Published 2012
  • Psychology
  • Psychology of Women Quarterly
    • Our article details the development of the self-report Negative Body Talk (NBT) scale and five studies (all conducted with samples of U.S. undergraduate women) supporting the psychometric soundness of scores on this measure. The NBT scale measures women’s tendency to engage in negatively valenced commentary about the weight and shape of their own bodies (including upward comparisons that comprise implicit negative commentary) when speaking with others. Two subscales were identified using a… CONTINUE READING
    View on SAGE
    48 Citations
    Highly Influential Citations
    4
    Background Citations
    10
    Methods Citations
    5
    Results Citations
    5

    Tables from this paper

    Tables

    48 Citations
    Citation Type

    Citation Type

    Development and validation of the Male Body Talk Scale: a psychometric investigation.
    • 30
    “S/he’s Got it Goin’ On”: Exploring Ethnic Differences in Body Talk
    • 1
    • PDF
    Women's Fat Talk Can "Kill the Mood" for Men.
    • 2
    Negative body talk measures for Asian, Latina(o), and White women and men: Measurement equivalence and associations with ethnic-racial identity.
    • 7
    Evaluating the Effect of Exposure to Challenging Fat Talk Scenarios on Body Disparaging Conversations
    • Highly Influenced
    A preliminary investigation of racial differences in body talk in age-diverse U.S. adults.
    • 13
    The impact of different responses to fat talk on body image and socioemotional outcomes.
    • 2
    Fat talk and its relationship with body image disturbance.
    • 14
    Initial development and validation of the Online Appearance-Relevant Peer Conversations Scale.
    The effects of negative body talk in an ethnically diverse sample of college students.
    • 10

    References

    SHOWING 1-10 OF 80 REFERENCES
    Talking Back to the Media Ideal: The Development and Validation of the Critical Processing of Beauty Images Scale
    • 29
    Development and psychometric evaluation of a quantitative measure of "fat talk".
    • 69
    • Highly Influential
    Examining "fat talk" experimentally in a female dyad: how are women influenced by another woman's body presentation style?
    • 72
    • PDF
    Social likeability, conformity, and body talk: Does fat talk have a normative rival in female body image conversations?
    • 52
    • PDF
    Peer pressure to "Fat talk": Does audience type influence how women portray their body image?
    • 23
    • PDF
    Fat talk and self-presentation of body image: Is there a social norm for women to self-degrade?
    • 123
    • PDF
    Modification of an existing measure of Body image preoccupation and its relationship to disordered eating in female college students
    • 154
    Testing the norm to fat talk for women of varying size: what's weight got to do with it?
    • 32
    • PDF
    The sociocultural attitudes towards appearance scale-3 (SATAQ-3): development and validation.
    • 921
    • PDF
    Gender Differences in Fat Talk Among American Adults: Results from the Psychology of Size Survey
    • 61
    • PDF