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Title: Everybody loves beauty? The moderated effect of body attractiveness among young Koreans
Authors: Baek, E 
Choo, H
Issue Date: 2018
Source: Fashion and textiles, 2018, v. 5, no. , 16, p. 1-16
Abstract: Physical attractiveness affects people’s lives in numerous ways. This study examined the effect of a woman’s body attractiveness on favorability perception based on the ‘beauty-is-good’ stereotype in the context of South Korea. Body attractiveness was operationalized using tallness in Study 1 and slimness in Study 2. The two studies tested the effect of a woman’s body attractiveness with the consideration of participants’ gender and the dependence of participants’ self-worth on their appearance. A general linear model with a 2 (target woman’s bodily attractiveness: high vs. low) × 2 (participants’ gender: female vs. male) design and participants’ appearance-contingent self-worth as a continuous predictor was performed. Results of these studies indicated that participants’ gender and appearance-contingent self-worth moderated the positive effect of body attractiveness on favorability perception; specifically, this effect was supported by men with high appearance-contingent self-worth and women with low appearance-contingent self-worth. Interestingly, women with high appearance-contingent self-worth showed opposite effect of body attractiveness on favorability perception in Study 2. These findings extend the effect of the beauty-is-good stereotype to bodily aspects and address the interaction between participants’ gender and appearance-contingent self-worth. Discussions on tallness and slimness are provided.
Keywords: Appearance-contingent self-worth
Beauty-is-good stereotype
Body attractiveness
Gender
Slimness
Tallness
Publisher: SpringerOpen
Journal: Fashion and textiles 
EISSN: 2198-0802
DOI: 10.1186/s40691-018-0130-8
Rights: © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
The following publication Baek, E., & Choo, H. (2018). Everybody loves beauty? The moderated effect of body attractiveness among young Koreans. Fashion and Textiles, 5, 16, 1-16 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40691-018-0130-8
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