Self-Objectification

In  their  seminal  article,  Barbara  Fredrickson  and Tomi-Ann  Roberts  posited  that  gender  socialization and contextual experiences predispose individuals to internalize cultural standards shaping how meaning is ascribed to one’s body. Rooted in sociocultural approaches to the psychology of women, self-objectification  is  the  tendency  to  introject  an external observer’s perspective on one’s body, evaluating  it  in