The Impact of Childhood Trauma on Self-objectification in Female College Students: The Mediating Role of Self-esteem

Yujie Ren

doi:10.54097/ijeh.v10i1.11113

Authors

Yujie Ren

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/ijeh.v10i1.11113

Keywords:

Self-objectification, Childhood trauma, self-esteem, Female college students.

Abstract

In order to explore the effects of childhood traumatic experiences and individual self-esteem level on female college students' self-objectification level and the functional mechanism, this study proposed hypotheses and constructed a model based on self-objectification theory and self-schema theory, and then used an online questionnaire to investigate 530 female college students. The results indicated that: (1) the traumatic experiences of female college students in childhood have a significant positive effect on their self-objectification level, which means that the more likely an individual is to objectify himself if he has experienced a traumatic event in childhood. (2)Female college students' self-esteem level has a full mediation effect between childhood trauma and self-objectification level. According to the results, this study has supplemented and proved the inducing factors of female self-objectification.

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