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).