University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48103, United States.
University of Michigan, 530 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI, 48103, United States.
Body Image. 2021 Sep;38:63-71. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.03.005. Epub 2021 Apr 6.
Findings consistently illustrate the negative association between women's sexual objectification and their sexual functioning. At the same time, some scholars argue that sexualized self-presentation may be a way to embrace one's sexuality and may signify empowerment. To date, no studies have explicitly explored the potential differential contributions of self-objectification and self-sexualization to multiple aspects of women's sexual agency. Towards this end, we surveyed 556 undergraduate women to examine how body surveillance, self-objectification, and self-sexualization differentially predict women's sexual assertiveness, sexual satisfaction, feelings of entitlement to sexual pleasure, condom use self-efficacy, and sexual esteem. Path analysis demonstrated consistent negative links between body surveillance, one behavioral manifestation of self-objectification, and sexual agency outcomes, but revealed both negative and positive links between measures of sexualization and sexual agency. This complex set of associations highlights the value of studying self-objectification and self-sexualization both in tandem and separately, so that researchers can develop a better understanding of the implications of each for women's sexual agency.
研究结果一致表明，女性的性客体化与她们的性功能之间存在负面关联。与此同时，一些学者认为，性化的自我呈现可能是一种接受自己的性行为的方式，可能代表着赋权。迄今为止，尚无研究明确探讨自我客体化和自我性化对女性性行为多个方面的潜在差异贡献。为此，我们调查了 556 名本科女大学生，以探讨身体监控、自我客体化和自我性化如何不同地预测女性的性自信、性满足感、对性愉悦的应有感、避孕套使用自信和性自尊。路径分析表明，身体监控与自我客体化的一种行为表现与性行为结果之间存在一致的负相关，但性化测量与性行为结果之间存在负相关和正相关。这种复杂的关联突显了同时研究自我客体化和自我性化以及分别研究它们的价值，以便研究人员能够更好地理解它们对女性性行为的影响。
