Effects of Sexually Objectifying Media on Self-Objectification and Body Surveillance in Undergraduates: Results of Two-Year Panel Study.

This article predicts that the media's insidious practice of objectifying bodies socializes individuals to take an outsider's perspective on the physical self and to habitually monitor their appearance. As expected, exposure to sexually objectifying television during year one predicted an increase in trait self-objectification (SO) during year two for both women and men and body surveillance for men only. In addition, trait SO predicted an avoidance of sexually objectifying television for both men and women.