Appearance and Masculinity: An Investigation into Appearance Management Behaviors, Social Physique Anxiety, Appearance Evaluation, and Appearance Orientation in a Small, Sexually Diverse Sample

Appearance dissatisfaction among women has been the focus of much research. Silverstein and Perlick (1995) argue that high achieving women in patriarchal societies have historically suffered from anxiety and disordered eating in part due to gender inequality. In recent years, the number of men reporting appearance dissatisfaction has grown. Gender inequality in modern society falls short in explaining appearance dissatisfaction. While gender inequality persists, the media has become a powerful and pervasive influence on people’s lives

White Ballgowns, Black Lace, and Bling: A Content Analysis of Say Yes to the Dress

In recent years, the commercialization of weddings, brides, and dress shopping has become magnified. Mass media has furthered the wedding obsession in America. Television shows dedicated to the wedding planning process, dress shopping, and the actual weddings illuminate the identity of a bride. These resources beg the question of what it means to be a bride in America, especially through a bride’s appearance and search for the perfect wedding dress for her wedding day. With little research on bridal identity, examining the appearance and identity of the bride through reality television is worthy avenue of study

Body Size Anxiety: Appearance Management Behaviors, Social Physique Anxiety, Appearance Evaluation, and Appearance Orientation in Larger Size Women

Weight bias is a pervasive form of discrimination in our modern day society. Goffman (1963) offered foresight into why weight bias has become so prevalent in our modern era. Those with stigmatized identities which people perceive as controllable are seen as having a defect in their own character. This makes sympathy for the individual less likely than criticism

Triggering Clothes?: Fashion and the Pro-Anorexia Community.

Pro-anorexia is a subculture of anorexia nervosa sufferers who vary from rejecting treatment to embracing the disorder as a lifestyle choice. Anorexia is consistently linked to body dissatisfaction and this dissatisfaction can be related to internalization of the thin body ideal. One of the main disseminators of the thin female body ideal is the media. Higher frequency of appearance-based social comparisons to such ideals contribute to thin ideal internalization and body dissatisfaction. A common element in pro anorexia communities is thinspiration, or media which promotes weight loss and idolizes extremely thin female celebrities. This research investigated pro-anorexia pages on Facebook and Pinterest in relation to the body and clothing ideals portrayed. Most pictures were user generated, portraying thin women who appeared to be under 30 years old. Clothing objects varied but were largely body hugging or body part revealing. Findings indicate the unique body and clothing ideals within this community

Reflections and Empowerment: Body Image Letters to a Younger Self

The body is an important means of presenting ourselves to others (Eicher & Evenson, 2015). Equally important is our personal perception of our appearance and how it affects our self-feelings, self-worth, and effort we put into appearance management behaviors (Lennon, Johnson & Rudd, 2017). Many scholars have written about the construct of body image, with general consensus that it is our perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about the body (Grogan, 2008), which in turn lead to behaviors related to the body. Teasing these complex relationships apart with undergraduate students, and empowering them to think objectively and realistically about their own bodies, is challenging. This presentation will describe the goal, scope, and impact of a teaching activity used in a large lecture course on the social psychology of dress

Policies versus Practices: Transparency of supply chain disclosures among luxury and mass market fashion brands

Policies versus Practices: Transparency of supply chain disclosures among luxury and mass market fashion brands Supply chain transparency can be defined as the minimum degree of disclosure to which supply chain policies, practices, agreements and procedures are open for public verification. In 2017, a Fashion Transparency Index rated and ranked 100 of the most affluent global fashion brands according to the level of transparent information they publicly share in five key areas: policies, corporate governance, traceability; audits and remediation; and negative impact reporting. For the 100 global fashion brands included in the index, we analyzed: (1) The amount, typology and comprehensiveness of information that fashion brands publicly disclose; (2) the tendency to disclose information on policies and corporate governance rather than information on areas of supply chain transparency (3) differences in supply chain transparency of public disclosures among luxury and mass market brands. To analyze group differences, we used ordinal effect size measures such as the Hodges-Lehmann median difference and the Probability of Superiority

Inter-generational Mentorship Workshop

Overall, over 35 people participated in the workshop and we had inspiring conversations while learning about different phases of academic careers. Several members commented after the workshop that we need more conversations or opportunities like this. And, the majority of the participants, a total of 27, stated that they want to be mentors for others based on the experiences we had during the 2017 workshop. To respond to such requests, our group proposed (a) to write a newsletter with the summary of the 2017 workshop discussion over the 2018 calendar year to further disseminate our conversations with the rest of ITAA members; (b) to propose a monograph related to inter-generational mentoring, and (c) to host another workshop in 2018 to continue our inter-generational mentoring efforts

Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department

Science Faculty with Education Specialties (SFES) are increasingly being hired across the United States. However, little is known about the motivations for SFES hiring or the potential or actual impact of SFES. In the context of a recent national survey of US SFES, we investigated SFES perceptions about these issues. Strikingly, perceptions about reasons for hiring SFES were poorly aligned with perceptions about potential and actual contributions reported by SFES themselves, and the advice they extended to beginning SFES was varied. While preparation of future teachers and departmental teaching needs were common reasons offered for SFES hiring, the potential and actual contributions of SFES highlighted instead their roles as pedagogical resources and as contributors to curricular reform. Misalignments between SFES perceptions about what motivates SFES hiring and their perceptions of their most valuable contributions present challenges for those interested in maximizing the impact of SFES

The Strayed Reveller, No. 1

The Strayed Reveller is a literary magazine of stories, songs, poems, essays, reviews and artwork by students at Stephen F. Austin State University. It is published monthly andsponsered by the School of Liberal Arts and Department of English.https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/reveller/1000/thumbnail.jp