Browsing by Subject "social comparison"
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(2009-05-15)Childhood cancer has obvious impacts on the children themselves, but also has impacts on their families and siblings. While studies have been conducted on the impacts of cancer on children and their parents, there has been ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2006-08-16)Although there have been only a few etiological studies that have examined the development and maintenance of body image in males, research fairly consistently reports that exposure and presumed comparison to images of ...
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(2015-07-14)The authors develop theoretical ideas in Technical Report #7 and outline links to political behavior. Technical Report #9 is more abstract than TR #8. This paper develops a theoretical argument about social comparison ...
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(1984)The present study examined the social comparison and self-reward patterns of seventy-three fifth grade male and female children. Motivation was assessed using the Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Orientation scale and perceived ...
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(2009-06-02)Social comparison theory offers a useful conceptual framework to understand how mainstream American sociocultural values of appearance may shape the development of body image disturbance and eating disorders. Some ...