Throwing Like a Girl: Self-Objectification Predicts Adolescent Girls’ Motor Performance  

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Fredrickson, Barbara L. ; Harrison, Kristen

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Sport and Social Issues vol. 29 no. 1 (Feb. 2005), page 79-101.
Topik: sex differences; body image; objectification; stereotypes
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Objectification theory posits thatWestern culture socializes girls and women to self-objectify by adopting a third-person perspective on their bodies. Feminist philosopher Iris Young (1990) argued that such self-objectification accounts for “throwing like a girl” and other constrained and ineffective motor performances. The authors’ hypothesis was that higher selfobjectification among adolescent girls would predict poorer throwing performance. The authors tested 202 girls, ages 10 to 17 (32%Anglo-American, 47% African American, and 20%other ethnicminorities).Each was asked to complete written measures of self-objectification and to throw a softball, three times, as hard as she could. Throwing performance was coded from video records. Results show that self-objectification predicted throwing performance above and beyond differences due to age and prior throwing experience. There were no differences by race. Discussion centers on how selfobjectification limits girls’ and women’s physical activity, with implications for emotional well-being, physical health and safety, as well as cognitive functioning.

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