Interethnic influencing factors regarding buttocks body image in women from Nigeria, Germany, USA and Japan
- Background: Body image research deals a lot with awareness of the body as an entity. Studies that consider individual anatomical aspects and place them in an intercultural context are rarely present. Methods: For this purpose, general data, body perception and judgment of body images from 2163 (48% female and 52% male) participants from Germany, Nigeria, the USA and Japan were evaluated as part of a survey. Results: There were clear differences in the personal body image of the participants' own buttocks, the buttocks as a beauty ideal and the way in which dissatisfaction was dealt with in different countries. In addition to sexual well-being (importance score: 0.405 a.u.), the country of origin (0.353), media consumption (0.042) and one's own weight (0.069) were also identified as influencing factors for satisfaction with one's own buttocks. A clear evolution could be derived regarding a WHR (waist-to-hip ratio) of well below 0.7, which was consistently favored by the participants but also propagated by influencers through images (\(\it ρ\) < 0.001). In this context, participants who indicated celebrities as role models for the buttocks showed a correspondingly high level of dissatisfaction with their own buttocks (R = −0.207, \(\it ρ\) < 0.001, \(\it ρ\) = −0.218). Conclusion: Overall, a highly significant correlation was shown between the consumption frequency of Instagram, TikTok and pornography with the negative perception of women's own buttocks.
Author: | Christoph WallnerGND, Svenja KruberGND, Sulaiman Olanrewaju AdebayoORCiDGND, Olusola AyandeleORCiDGND, Hikari NamatameORCiDGND, Tosin Tunrayo OlonisakinORCiDGND, Peter O. OlapegbaORCiDGND, Yoko SawamiyaORCiDGND, Tomohiro SuzukiGND, Yuko YamamiyaGND, Johannes Maximilian WagnerORCiDGND, Marius DryschORCiDGND, Marcus LehnhardtGND, Björn BehrORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-103304 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013212 |
Parent Title (English): | International journal of environmental research and public health |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Place of publication: | Basel |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2023/11/03 |
Date of first Publication: | 2022/10/14 |
Publishing Institution: | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek |
Tag: | Open Access Fonds WHR; body image; buttocks; female; social media |
Volume: | 19 |
Issue: | 20, Article 13212 |
First Page: | 13212-1 |
Last Page: | 13212-16 |
Note: | Article Processing Charge funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Open Access Publication Fund of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. |
Institutes/Facilities: | Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil, Klinik für Plastische Chirurgie und Schwerbrandverletzte |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Medizin, Gesundheit |
open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Licence (English): | Creative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International |