Educational Foundations, College of Education and Professional Studies, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA.
Dev Psychol. 2013 Jan;49(1):184-95. doi: 10.1037/a0028247. Epub 2012 Apr 30.
Peer sexual harassment is a pervasive problem in schools and is associated with a variety of negative mental health outcomes. Objectification theory suggests that sexual attention in the form of peer harassment directs unwanted attention to the victim's body and may lead to a desire to alter the body via disordered eating. In the current study, we used latent growth modeling with a sample of 406 U.S. adolescents to examine the relationship between longitudinal trends in peer sexual harassment from 5th to 9th grade and disordered eating in 9th grade. Longitudinal trends in self-surveillance were proposed as a mediator of the relationships. Results indicated that the relationship between upsetting sexual harassment at 5th grade and disordered eating symptoms at 9th grade was mediated by self-surveillance at 5th grade. Girls reported more upsetting sexual harassment, more self-surveillance, and thus more disordered eating than boys did. These results are in accord with objectification theory, which proposes that sexual harassment is a form of sexual objectification and may lead to self-surveillance and disordered eating.
同伴性骚扰是学校中普遍存在的问题，与各种负面心理健康结果有关。客体化理论表明，同伴骚扰形式的性关注将不必要的注意力引向受害者的身体，可能导致通过饮食失调来改变身体。在当前的研究中，我们使用具有 406 名美国青少年的样本的潜在增长模型，来检验从 5 年级到 9 年级的同伴性骚扰的纵向趋势与 9 年级饮食失调之间的关系。自我监督被提议为这些关系的中介。结果表明，在 5 年级时受到性骚扰的困扰与在 9 年级时饮食失调症状之间的关系，是由 5 年级时的自我监督所中介的。女孩比男孩报告了更多的令人不安的性骚扰、更多的自我监督，因此也有更多的饮食失调。这些结果与客体化理论一致，该理论认为性骚扰是一种性客体化的形式，可能导致自我监督和饮食失调。
