Depression and Motivation: Twin Outcomes of Self-Objectification and Their Effect

描述（由申请人提供）：研究表明，自我客观化对女性的心理健康有损害性后果，例如，羞耻，饮食失调）。然而，关于自我客体化对女性抑郁症患病率的影响却知之甚少。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，发展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并没有充分解决可能对妇女产生不成比例影响的因素的作用（例如，抑郁症）的动机模式和认知过程的调查。为了扩展现有的知识，拟议的研究的目的是确定如何自我客观化有助于妇女的抑郁症状和动机，反过来，影响性能。此外，研究还没有检查是否影响 自我客体化在不同的妇女群体中也同样存在。因此，拟议项目的具体目标是检查1）自我客体化的个体在日常生活中是否经历更多的负面影响和更少的高峰动机状态，2）自我客体化，如媒体图像实验操纵，是否预测抑郁症状和内在动机下降，并对认知任务的表现产生不利影响，（3）通过对白色和亚裔美国妇女的Drooosed关系的调查，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.