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Engeln-Maddox, Renee; Miller, Steven A. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2008
This article details the development of the Critical Processing of Beauty Images Scale (CPBI) and studies demonstrating the psychometric soundness of this measure. The CPBI measures women's tendency to engage in critical processing of media images featuring idealized female beauty. Three subscales were identified using exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Measures (Individuals), Females, Psychometrics
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Basow, Susan A.; Foran, Kelly A.; Bookwala, Jamila – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2007
Social pressure to conform to the thin ideal is believed to play a decisive role in the development of eating disorders. In this field study at a college with only sophomore rush, 99 sorority women, 80 nonsorority women past their first year, and 86 first-year women completed three subscales of the Eating Disorders Inventory-2 (Garner, 1991), the…
Descriptors: Females, Eating Disorders, Sororities, Social Influences