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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2020
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.Ed.
Department
Exercise and Sport Science
First Advisor
Whitney Moore
Abstract
Building upon discourse completion task (DCT) research examining men’s responses to a fat talk prompt by a male friend, this study examined how men respond to a DCT with a muscle talk prompt. Adult men (N = 110) completed an online survey including measures of their body talk engagement and DCTs depicting male dyads of similar and different body types (e.g., normal-normal, normal-overweight, normal-muscular, normal-thin). For consistency, the respondent was depicted with a “normal” body type. The pattern of responses to the DCT dyads varied across the different speaker body types and differed compared to prior research using a fat prompt. Deflections and expansion requests were addressed more to the muscular speaker; whereas validations were given more toward normal and overweight speakers. Two sub-themes were added to the codebook. More research is needed to further understand what influences male friends’ body talk.
Recommended Citation
Dibenedetto, Nicholas Lee, "Bigger Biceps Are Better: A Dyadic Analysis Between Male Friends" (2020). Wayne State University Theses. 768.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_theses/768