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“I am not a skinny toothpick and proud of it”: Latina adolescents’ ethnic identity and responses to mainstream media images

Schooler, Deborah, Daniels, Elizabeth A.·2014·Body Image
DOI 10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.09.001
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Using a quasi-experimental design, 118 Latina girls, ages 13-18, viewed five color photographs of White women. Girls viewed either images of sexualized women or images of non-sexualized women. After viewing the images, girls were asked to complete the sentence stem, "I am…" 20 times. Thirty percent of girls spontaneously described their ethnicity in one of their sentence completions. Spontaneous use of ethnicity was taken as an indicator of the salience of ethnic identity. Among girls who viewed sexualized, thin-ideal White media images, spontaneously using an ethnic descriptor was related to more positive descriptions of one's own body and appearance. Analyses supported the premise that ethnic identity may act as a protective factor, buffering Latina girls from the negative effects of viewing sexualized, thin-ideal White media images.

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  • Research suggests that in the U.S., Black and Latinx adolescents are less preoccupied with thinness than their White peers, desiring a curvier appearance or being more tolerant of a higher weight status.

    “Research suggests that in the U.S., Black and Latinx adolescents are less preoccupied with thinness than their White peers, desiring a curvier appearance or being more tolerant of a higher weight status (Jones et al., 2007; Schooler & Daniels, 2014).”

    From The Perfect Storm: A Developmental-Sociocultural Framework for the Role of Social Media in Adolescent Girls' Body Image Concerns and Mental Health. (2022) · cites this paper as Schooler & Daniels, 2014

  • Latina women prefer a curvier body ideal.

    “Latina women engage in behaviors that signal less weight concern (White & Warren, 2013), and they prefer a curvier body ideal (Schooler & Daniels, 2014).”

    From Food attitudes and well-being: The role of culture (2016) · cites this paper as Schooler & Daniels, 2014

  • People of Latin American descent tend to have low weight concern and low food negativity.

    “More recent studies also point to the tendency for low weight concern and low food negativity in people of Latin American descent.”

    From Food attitudes and well-being: The role of culture (2016) · cites this paper as Schooler & Daniels, 2014

  • For Latinas, the ideal body type is thicker and curvier than the ideal for Caucasian women.

    “For Latinas, the ideal body type is thicker and curvier than the ideal for Caucasian women (Schooler & Daniels, 2014).”

    From Food attitudes and well-being: The role of culture (2016) · cites this paper as Schooler & Daniels, 2014

  • Latina women and adolescent girls living in the United States describe awareness of, and frustration with, primarily White appearance ideals proliferated in media.

    “Latina women and adolescent girls living in the United States describe awareness of, and frustration with, primarily White appearance ideals proliferated in media (Schooler & Daniels, 2014;Viladrich et al., 2009).”

    From Incorporating social media and muscular ideal internalization into the tripartite influence model of body image: Towards a modern understanding of adolescent girls’ body dissatisfaction (2022) · cites this paper as Schooler & Daniels, 2014

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Authors
Schooler, D., & Daniels, E. A.
Affiliations
  • Gallaudet University (US)
  • Oregon State University Cascades (US)
Corresponding author
Schooler, Deborah
ORCID
Venue
Body Image
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2014-01
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
11-18
ISSN
1740-1445 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.09.001
OpenAlex
W1979509129
Cited by
48
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 6 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2
FWCI
10.32
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Body Image (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Cultural Identity and Representation
Keywords
Latina adolescents, ethnic identity, media image, thin ideal, self-description, protective factors, white women, gender stereotypes
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Analysis of Variance, Body Image, Body Weight, Female, Hispanic or Latino, Humans, Mass Media, Personal Satisfaction, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Identification

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