The Associations of Appearance Comparisons with Peers and Chinese and Korean Media Figures with Thin-Ideal Internalization, Body Dissatisfaction, and the Drive for Thinness Among Female Korean-Chinese College Students in China

Appearance-related social comparisons can lead to negative health consequences. This study investigated possible associations of the flow of transnational media originating from Korea in a non-Western context. We compared frequencies of appearance comparisons with peers, Chinese media figures, and...

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Published in:	International Journal of Communication
Main Authors:	Namdoo Kim, Jounghee Lee
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	USC Annenberg Press 2019-09-01
Subjects:	appearance comparison body dissatisfaction thin-ideal internalization Korean-Chinese Korean media figures
Online Access:	https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/10689