There have been many studies dealing with the relationships between selfperceptions
and the perceptions of advertising. However, research that focused
specifically on diet advertising, which has recently seen a dramatic increase in our
society, has been scarce. One can assume that people’s perceptions of diet
advertising may be influenced by how they think about their own bodies or by the
extent to which they compare their own bodies with those of others. For a more
comprehensive understanding of the aforementioned relationships, this study
analyzes the possible moderating role of body-esteem in predicting social
comparison’s influence on the perceptions of diet advertising. The results of this
study showed that people’s body-esteem level not only influences their attitude
toward diet advertising, but also moderates the relationship between the attitude
toward diet advertising and individuals’ social comparison orientation.