Department of Psychology and Centre for Psychosocial Health, The Education University of Hong Kong, Tai Po, Hong Kong, China.
Arch Sex Behav. 2023 May;52(4):1617-1629. doi: 10.1007/s10508-023-02560-3. Epub 2023 Feb 28.
In daily life, women often experience various forms of sexual objectification such as being stared at in public settings and receiving unsolicited sexual remarks on social media. These incidents could have damaging effects on women's physical and mental health, necessitating ways to respond to the experience. Researchers have provided burgeoning evidence demonstrating the effects of sexual objectification on various psychological, emotional, and cognitive outcomes. However, relatively few researchers have tested how sexually objectified people behaviorally react to the objectification experience. To address this knowledge gap, we aimed to test whether sexual objectification increases dishonesty among women and reveal one potential underlying psychological mechanism. We predicted that sexual objectification increases dishonesty serially through higher levels of relative deprivation and lower levels of self-regulation. We conducted two experiments (valid N = 150 and 279, respectively) to test the predictions and found that participants who experienced sexual objectification reported greater dishonest tendencies than those who did not (Experiments 1 and 2). Moreover, relative deprivation and self-regulation serially mediated the effect of sexual objectification on dishonesty (Experiment 2). In the current experiments, we highlight the essential role of relative deprivation and self-regulation in explaining how sexual objectification increases dishonesty and various related forms of antisocial behavior.
在日常生活中,女性经常会经历各种形式的性物化,例如在公共场所被人盯着看,或者在社交媒体上收到不请自来的性言论。这些事件可能会对女性的身心健康造成损害,因此需要找到应对这种经历的方法。研究人员已经提供了大量证据,证明性物化对各种心理、情感和认知结果的影响。然而,相对较少的研究人员测试过被性物化的人对这种经历的行为反应。为了填补这一知识空白,我们旨在测试性物化是否会增加女性的不诚实行为,并揭示一个潜在的心理机制。我们预测,性物化会通过更高的相对剥夺感和更低的自我调节能力,依次增加不诚实行为。我们进行了两项实验(有效样本分别为 150 人和 279 人)来检验这些预测,结果发现经历过性物化的参与者比没有经历过性物化的参与者报告了更大的不诚实倾向(实验 1 和实验 2)。此外,相对剥夺感和自我调节能力依次介导了性物化对不诚实的影响(实验 2)。在当前的实验中,我们强调了相对剥夺感和自我调节能力在解释性物化如何增加不诚实以及各种相关形式的反社会行为方面的重要作用。
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