Women (and increasingly men) are constantly bombarded with images of 'idealized' women in the media and there is a growing concern about how these images affect our perceptions of ourselves. Daniels (2012) conducted a study in which she showed young women images of successful female athletes (e.g., Anna Kournikova) that were either images of them playing sport (performance athlete images) or images of them posing in bathing suits (sexualized images). Participants completed a short writing exercise after viewing these types of images. Each participant saw only one type of image, but several examples. Daniels then coded these written exercises and identified themes, one of which was whether women commented on their own appearance or attractiveness. Daniels hypothesized that women who viewed the sexualized images (n = 140) would self?objectify (i.e., this theme would be present in what they wrote) more than those who viewed the performance athlete pictures (n = 117, despite what the participants section of the paper implies). The frequencies are reported below.

V SPSS Statistics Data Editor nsform Analyze Direct Marketing Graphs Utilities Add-ons Window Help H A ABC Theme Present Athletes Body Admiration Role Model Self Evaluation Self Physical_Activity O O 88 105 70 97 84 O 29 12 47 20 33 0 17 84 133 84 118 123 56 7 56 22