The role of menstruation in women's objectification: a questionnaire study

• Published in: Journal of advanced nursing Vol. 73; no. 6; pp. 1390 - 1402
• Main Author: Sveinsdottir, Herdís
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.06.2017
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age of onset; Attitude to Health; Attitudes; Biology; body; Body consciousness; Body Image; Cross-Sectional Studies; Drugs; Eating disorders; eating habits; Exercise; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Female; Habits; Health care; Healthy food; Humans; Iceland; Menarche; Menstruation; Menstruation - psychology; Nurses; nursing; Objectification; Pain; Questionnaires; Self image; Selfobjects; self‐objectification; Shame; Surveillance; Surveys and Questionnaires; Women; Young Adult; Young women; objectification; eating habits; attitudes; menstruation; self-objectification; nursing; body; menarche

Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the concepts of objectification and self‐objectification among young women in the context of attitudes towards menstruation, menstrual suppression, menstrual and menarche experiences, disorder eating and exercise habits and to detect predictors of objecti...