Thesis Database

Year: 2008 - 2009 2nd term

Programme: BSSc

Supervisor: Timothy Patrick Carey

Student name: Connie Wai Yi Lau

Thesis title:

For better or Worse: The effect of thin models in the media on females' self-evaluation

Keywords: Body image, Media, Females' Self-evaluation, assimilation, Contrast.

Participants: 174 female Chinese participants

Measures: positive affect and negative affect schedule, Body-esteem scale for adolescents and adults.

Measures abr: PANAS, BESAA