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Aubrey, Jennifer Stevens; Taylor, Laramie D. – Human Communication Research, 2009
We present a program of research investigating the effects of lad magazines on male body self-consciousness and appearance anxiety. Study 1, based on panel data from undergraduate men, showed that lad magazine exposure in Year 1 predicted body self-consciousness in Year 2. Study 2 was an experiment that showed that men assigned to view objectified…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Anxiety, Males, Undergraduate Students
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Osborne, Jason W. – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995
Tested hypothesis that African American children protect themselves from failure by detaching their self-esteem from academic outcomes. Analyses revealed a pattern of weakening correlations between self-esteem and academic outcomes from 8th to 10th grade for African American students. Correlations for white students remained stable or increased.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Blacks, Comparative Analysis