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Advanced insecurity
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male body shame, masculinity threat and sexual aggression
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Mescher
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Kris
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Kris Mescher
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Rudman
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Laurie Rudman
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chair
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David Wilder
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2014
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2014-10
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2014
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eng
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Research on body shame has predominantly focused on women (Moradi & Huang, 2008). However, men are increasingly viewing muscularity as an important feature of masculinity (Kimmel & Mahalik, 2004; Wienke, 1998). My dissertation reviews the literature on male body image and its connection to masculinity; establishes how body shame may constitute a chronic masculinity threat and explores how and why men may react to acute masculinity threats with sexual aggression. Findings from prior research suggest that men high on body shame are more likely to sexually aggress (Mescher & Rudman, 2014) – a unique finding which has implications for rape theories and precarious manhood theory (Vandello, Bosson, Cohen, Burnaford, & Weaver, 2008). This dissertation tested the Body Shame and Sexual Aggression Model (BSSAM) in two experiments. Experiment 1 manipulated men’s exposure to idealized body media to test proposed relationships between media consumption, body dissatisfaction, body shame and upward social comparison, and found support for the path from body dissatisfaction to body shame, regardless of media exposure or comparison. Experiment 2 was designed to replicate and extend results from Mescher and Rudman (2014), in which men high on body shame responded to a female confederate’s rejection of them as a dating partner with increased sexual aggression; previous findings did not replicate, but it is speculated that this may be partially due to the inclusion of a novel measure of men’s beliefs about having been romantically victimized by women. The pilot test designed to validate this measure is also discussed.
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Psychology
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (viii, 93 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Masculinity
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Body image in men
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Sex role
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by Kris Mescher
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3N0157K
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ETD doctoral
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Kris
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2014-10-01 11:11:50
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Kris Mescher
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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