Gendered Cycles of Sexual Objectification: The Roles of Social Dominance Orientation and Perceived Social Mobility.

ABSTRACT: Despite the high prevalence of sexual objectification, the understanding of gender differences in its victimization and perpetration remains limited. We bridged victim and perpetrator perspectives, expecting that objectification victimization positively predicts perpetration, and investigated the mediating role of social dominance orientation (SDO), and gender and perceived social mobility as moderators. Participants (valid N = 530) completed measures of sexual objectification victimization, perceived social mobility, SDO, and sexual objectification perpetration. We found that sexual objectification victimization predicted its perpetration, and that this relationship was stronger among men than women. SDO partially mediated the moderation effect of gender, whereby mediation through SDO was

SUBMITTER: Chan RSW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11836084 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature