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Class and objectification: An investigation into the relationship between women’s social class and self- and other-objectification

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  • Qian Ma
  • Steve Loughnan

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This paper aims to investigate the relationship between women’s social class and their levels of self- and other-objectification. Two online studies comprising of multiple questionnaires were conducted: Study 1 examined the association between the social class (both objective and subjective) of 198 non-student British women and their self-objectification levels, while Study 2 turned towards the relationship between social class and other-objectification among 82 non-student British women. Our results indicated no apparent relationship between social class and each of the relevant objectification measures. As the first paper on the topic of class and objectification, it appears that there is no relationship observed between the two.

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  • Qian Ma & Steve Loughnan, 2019. "Class and objectification: An investigation into the relationship between women’s social class and self- and other-objectification," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(4), pages 1-16, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0214111
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214111
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