HUBUNGAN OBJEKTIFIKASI DIRI, KECEMASAN SOSIAL FISIK DAN BODY DISSATISFACTION PADA PEREMPUAN DEWASA AWAL
Abstract
Nowadays, women are facing sexual objectification, therefore they tend to
self objectify (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). In the other hand, women also faces
social physique anxiety and body dissatisfaction (Sarwer, Thompson & Cash,
2005).The aim of this study is to investigate whether a relation exists between self
objectification and social physique anxiety; whether a relation exists between self
objectification and body dissatisfaction; and whether a relation exists between
social physique anxiety and body dissatisfaction. Self objectification was
measured by adapting Objectified Body Consciousness Scale (Sinclair, 1996),
social physique anxiety was measured by adapting Social Physique Anxiety Scale
(Young, 2007) and body dissatisfaction was measured using Body Parts
Satisfaction Scale (Petrie, Tripp, & Harvey, 2002). Subjects were 159 women in
Surabaya, with age ranging from 18 to 40 years old. Results with Pearson Product
Moment indicate a positive correlation between self objectification and social
physique anxiety ( r = 0,618, p < 0,05); a positive correlation between self
objectification and body dissatisfaction ( r = 0,359, p < 0,05); and a positive and
correlation between social physique anxiety and body dissatisfaction (r = 0,529, p
= 0,05). The result implicates the need of early prevention of maintaining healthy
lifestyle (Scott, 2007), body mind therapy which include biofeedback and
meditation (Broccoli, 2008), also yoga (Clancy, 2010) to reduce self
objectification, social physique anxiety and body dissatisfaction among women.
There is also a need to do intervention based on schools, adolescence community,
and university to eliminate self objectification, social physique anxiety and body
dissatisfaction among the society (Paxton, 2002).