against sexist events toward distorted eating. Using hierarchical moderated regression, the study found two types of feminist identity; synthesis and active commitment (Sabik & Tylka, 2006). These two out of the five feminist identity styles they evaluated were the only ones that affected the relationship between disordered eating and assumed sexist events. The results found that non-feminist women were impacted greater by sexist events than feminist women, meaning non-feminist women receied more psychological distress when fa Designing Mixed Methods Research ced with sexist events. This is helpful because feminist consciousness were proven to be a unique factor that could weaken the relationship between sexist events and psychological distress. In order to clarify and advance the findings of previous studies, we will measure Feminist Identity using the Feminist Beliefs and Behavior scale (Zucker, 2004). The scale contains three items about the cardinal beliefs of feminists answered in a yes/no format followed by one dichotomous question to access the participants’ willingness to identify as a feminist. Examples of items include, “Girls and women have not been treated as well as boys and men in our society” and “Women and men should be paid equally for the same work”. Participants will answer to each item in a dic Designing Mixed Methods Research hotomous, yes/no format. Based on previous research, we expect out hypothesis, “Women who identify themselves as feminists or have core beliefs of feminists will be less likely to self-objectify due to menstrual taboo” to be true. Every movement made by feminist is to express their confidence and acceptance of oneself. In doing so the disdain and taboos of menstruation will shift, creating confidence in all woman to be able to talk about periods without feeling embarrassed. Each survey has evidence that shows the forward thinking and beliefs over non feminist woman when it comes to sex, menstruation and body confidence. Finally, we will be being using a sample of about 68 females from a PIPER pool at The College of New Jersey. Many studies have used similar aged female participants so it will be interesting to compare our results to prior research. There are not too many previous studies that examine the effects of menstruation taboo on feminist identity and self-objectification on women. Therefore, this study will clarify how these three variables influence each other in the female population at The College of New Jersey. Method Participants The sample consisted of about 400 female undergraduate students from The College of New Jersey (M= 19.86 years, SD= 1.251, range = 18-23) who were selected through the PIPER pool to participate in r Designing Mixed Methods Research esearch. Participants must be 18 years old and female to participate in this study, if they do not meet this criterion they will not be allowed to participant in the study. Participants’ ethnic background were 70.6% White European American, 11.8% Asian, 0% Native American or Pacific Islander, 7.4% African American, and 0% American Indian or Alaska Native; also 2.9% reported other ethnicity. With regards to year in college, 6 identified as seniors, 17 as juniors, 18 as sophomores and 27 as freshman. All participants received one piper credit for participation lasting up to 30 minutes. Materials We used advertisements to manipulate the independent variable, taboo messages. Participants were shown two different advertisements, all Designing Mixed Methods Research  participants saw the water bottle advertisement and then participants saw one of the two menstrual product advertisements. A water bottle advertisement was viewed by participants followed by two randomly assigned tampon advertisements. The purpose of the water bottle advertisement was to avoid deception as the study >