Findings consistently illustrate the negative association between women’s sexual objectification and their sexual functioning. At the same time, some scholars argue that sexualized self-presentation may be a way to embrace one’s sexuality and may signify empowerment. To date, no studies have explicitly explored the potential differential contributions of self-objectification and self-sexualization to multiple aspects of women’s sexual agency. Towards this end, we surveyed 556 undergraduate women to examine how body surveillance, self-objectification, and self-sexualization differentially predict women’s sexual assertiveness, sexual satisfaction, feelings of entitlement to sexual pleasure, condom use self-efficacy, and sexual esteem. Path analysis demonstrated consistent negative links between body surveillance, one behavioral manifestation of self-objectification, and sexual agency outcomes, but revealed both negative and positive links between measures of sexualization and sexual agency. This complex set of associations highlights the value of studying self-objectification and self-sexualization both in tandem and separately, so that researchers can develop a better understanding of the implications of each for women’s sexual agency.

调查结果一致地说明了女性的性对象化与其性功能之间的负相关。同时，一些学者认为，性化的自我呈现可能是一种拥抱性取向的方式，可能意味着赋权。迄今为止，还没有研究明确探讨自我客观化和自我性化对女性性能动性的多个方面的潜在不同贡献。为此，我们调查了 556 名大学生女性，以研究身体监视、自我客观化和自我性化如何不同地预测女性的性自信、性满足、性快感的权利感、安全套使用自我效能感和性尊重。路径分析表明身体监视之间存在一致的负面联系，自我客体化的一种行为表现和性能动性结果，但揭示了性化措施与性能动性之间的消极和积极联系。这组复杂的关联强调了同时或分别研究自我客观化和自我性化的价值，以便研究人员可以更好地了解每种情况对女性性行为的影响。