INTRODUCTION Being a teenager can be difficult, especially when trying to establish who you are and how you act. Often, young adolescents feel pressure to look and act in a certain way – feeling inadequate unless they reach the standards that they perceive to be ideal. Unbeknown to teenagers is the fact that a substantial part of this pressure that they feel stems from an internalized viewpoint adopted by themselves; a phenomenon is known as self-objectification. Self-objectification, a term first used by Barbara L. Fredrickson and Tomi-Ann Roberts, is explained in the Fredrickson and Roberts document as a theory that “posits that girls and women are typically acculturated to internalize an observer 's perspective as a primary view of their …show more content…
This piece of literature further proves the counter-notion that self-objectification only occurs in women and not in men. Throughout the document, there is no male-empathetic statements that acknowledge the pressures felt by men to attain a certain physical appearance. This source also confirms the undeniable presence of self-objectification in the twenty-first century, as I proposed in my introduction to this research task. Reliability: this source is reliable because it clearly states on the front page of the document that the document “has been accepted for inclusion in McNair Scholars Research Journal by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@EMU.”, which means that the document has been analysed and deemed suitable for public access. The company would not have authorized the publication of the document if it would tarnish or jeopardise the company’s name. Usefulness: this document has offered facts and explanations regarding self-objectification that I believe will be beneficial to me in terms of better understanding self-objectification as a …show more content…
The research journal is based primarily on the findings of others and thus provides no further progress into the scope of self-objectification as a whole. • Objectification theory: toward understanding women’s lived experiences and mental health risks. “This article offers objectification as a framework for understanding the experiential consequences of being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body.” Validity: this document (Fredrickson and Roberts) is one of the most commonly referred to documents throughout self-objectification research compilations. I believe that the content within this source is valid because practically each statement made is substantiated and backed up by a quotation from other research done on that specific