Eating disorders and the media

Adolescent medicine: state of the art reviews, 2008

Adolescence is a time of tremendous change in physical appearance. Many adolescents report dissatisfaction with their body shape and size. Forming one's body image is a complex process, influenced by family, peers, and media messages. Increasing evidence shows that the combination of ubiquitous ads for foods and emphasis on female beauty and thinness in both advertising and programming leads to confusion and dissatisfaction for many young people. Sociocultural factors, specifically media exposure, play an important role in the development of disordered body image. Of significant concern, studies have revealed a link between media exposure and the likelihood of having symptoms of disordered eating or a frank eating disorder. Pediatricians and other adults must work to promote media education and make media healthier for young people. More research is needed to identify the most vulnerable children and adolescents.

1999

Objective. To assess the influence of the media on girls' weight concerns, weight control/loss behaviors, and perceptions of body weight and shape.

Promotion and Marketing Communications [Working Title], 2019

The media 'effect' on consumer behaviour has long been of interest to many researchers. In part, this has been related to how movies, magazines and television programmes portrayed thinness in the nineteenth and twentieth century, a concept which has been consistently emphasised and promoted to women, thus resulting in increased body dissatisfaction. Prior to the existence of media, a curvaceous body was considered as a sign of wealth and an ideal body image. More recently, with the emergence of the Internet, there has been increasing debate over portraying a healthier body image. However, no research to date has addressed the implications of manifesting a maintainable body image in the context of the global fashion industry. Thus, to fill this gap, qualitative ethnographic approach (netnography) of studying online behaviour and consumer perception was undertaken. The chapter briefly outlines the relevance of clothing and the evolution of the ideal body image over the last decade, indicating how the ideal body image has changed, but also shows how different media channels have had an effect using television and social media examples.

Media Psychology, 2010

This article reviews research on the effects of television and magazines on body image and on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in females. Evidence from different types of studies in the fields of eating disorders, media psychology, health psychology, and mass communication indicates that mass media are an extremely important source of information and reinforcement in relation to the nature of the thin beauty ideal, its importance, and how to attain it. Although considerable research remains to be done, evidence is accumulating that repeated exposure to media and to both direct and indirect (via media's effects on peers, parents, coaches, physicians, etc.) pressures from media to be thin constitute risk factors for body dissatisfaction, concerns over weight and disordered eating behaviors in adolescent girls and young women. To guide further research, as well as the prevention and treatment of disordered eating, we present a figural summary of media effects that integrates moderating and mediating factors such as internalization of the thin beauty ideal, social comparison, and activation of the thinness schema. We argue that risk factor research, prevention, and treatment will benefit from systematic research designed to clarify how the impact of various mass media is shaped by source and receiver/perceiver factors.

Academic Psychiatry, 2006

2012

The aim of research study was to find out behavior of adolescent girls as influenced by or in response to the influence of 'commonly used media by adolescent girls, to seek information regarding current trends related to women's physical appearance'. Purposively, from three schools 120 adolescents (60 early adolescent girls and 60 late adolescent girls) were randomly selected for the study in Kanpur city of Utter Pradesh. A self constructed questionnaire was used to find out the most commonly used media (television, magazines, cinema and internet.), among adolescent girls, to seek information regarding current trends related to women's physical appearance according to the age and socioeconomic status of adolescent girls. In Data was analyzed in terms of percentage, frequency and chi square (χ2). Findings reveal that commonly used media by adolescent girls were television (91.67%), magazines (89.67%), cinema (81.67%) and internet (25.83%) respectively.

2014

This paper will look at different magazines and how they affect the viewer's about their own body images. The media has given off an unnatural standard of what people should look like, and people have become self-conscious because of that. This paper will also look at two journal articles that analyze the psychology aspect of how men and women are persuade by the media. Also, the author will analyze her own life experience with eating disorders and struggles with her relationship with food.

Feminist Media Studies, 2008

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