Depression and motivation: self-objectification

描述(由申请者提供)：研究表明，自我客观化对女性的心理健康具有破坏性影响(例如，羞愧、饮食行为紊乱)。然而，关于自我客观化对女性抑郁患病率的影响，我们知之甚少。有充分的证据表明，女性患抑郁症的比例是男性的两倍。此外，培养能力的动机被认为是实现最佳心理健康的关键。然而，大多数动机和成就研究没有充分考虑到可能对女性产生不成比例影响的因素(如抑郁)在动机模式和认知过程研究中的作用。为了扩展现有的知识，这项拟议的研究的目的是确定自我客观化如何有助于女性的抑郁症状和动机，进而影响表现。此外，研究还没有检查是否有影响 自我客观化在不同的妇女群体中也有类似的作用。因此，该项目的具体目标是：1)自我客观化的个体在日常生活中是否经历了更多的负面情绪和更少的峰值动机状态；2)被媒体形象实验操纵的自我客观化是否预示着抑郁症状和内在动机的降低，并对认知任务的表现产生不利影响；以及3)通过调查白人和亚裔美国女性的Drooosed关系来考察这些过程中的文化差异。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research has demonstrated that self-objectification has damaging mental health consequences for women e.g., shame, disordered eating behavior). However, little is known about the effects of self-objectification on he prevalence of women's depression. It is well documented that women experience depression at twice the rate of men. Further, motivations to develop competencies are considered essential to achieve optimal psychological well-being. However, a majority of motivation and achievement research does not adequately address the role of factors that may disproportionately affect women (e.g., depression) in the investigation of motivational patterns and cognitive processes. In an effort to extend current knowledge, the aim of the proposed research is to identify how self-objectification contributes to women's depressive symptoms and motivation and, in turn, impacts performance. Moreover, research has yet to examine whether the effects of self-objectification operate similarly among diverse groups of women. Thus, the specific aims of the proposed project are to examine 1) whether individuals who self-objectify experience more negative affect and less peak motivational states in their daily lives, 2) whether self-objectification, as experimentally manipulated by media images, predicts depressive symptoms and decreased intrinsic motivation, and adversely affects performance on a cognitive task, and 3) to examine cultural differences in these processes by investigating the Drooosed relations in both White and Asian American women.