This article provides an in-depth elaboration of the influence in mass media have on the perceptions on individuals with respect to their body image. This article discusses the manner in which distorted version of body of women is influenced by the contemporary media. The author articulates that, individuals shore up their resistance towards the impact on image when they are exposed while supporting media procedures of feminine as well as providing support to the analysis that exist in the media. This article helps us understand the impact media has on the body image of women through their perception in what an ideal body should look like with comparison to the ideal body images from media images and analysis. This text focuses on the influence in which mass media brings on body image, weight as well as eating management practices.
The article provides an analysis of contents of the media messages regarding body image such as the impact that is accrued from the mass media on eating behavior and the body image of women. It also provides an analysis of the relationship that exist between exposure from magazine and television and the symptomatology of eating disorders The media message contents analyzed also entails the portrayal of mass media‘s slim body. This article helps in understanding the influence in which media analysis of the ideal body image has on practices of women’s eating and weight management as well as their body image This text provides article reviews existing literatures that focus on the impact of magazines and television on female’s attitudes and behaviors of disordered eating and body image This article reviews reveals that mass media contain information that fosters body image maintenance practices as well as providing information and reinforcement with regards to ideal thin beauty, its significance and the techniques of attaining such ideal slender bodies.
It is reported that there is a greater media pressure either direct or indirect as well as continued exposure to media for thin bodies which results in risk factors for getting concern over eating disorders and weight as well as body dissatisfaction of female adolescents It also provides ways in which media influence on body image can be mitigated. This article advance our understanding on the influence of mass media body dissatisfaction which results to unhealthy eating practices as well as the strategies or factors of mediating and moderating the media influence on its consumers. This text reflects on the influence of media on the disturbance on body image development among the female adolescents but it reveals lesser impact on boys. Adolescent girls express body dissatisfaction with respect to viewing media commercials regarding thin ideal body sizes.
The effect on the female adolescents was reported to have been mediated by the comparison of appearance and activation processes of schema. Generally, boys were not affected however, viewing commercials relating to ideal muscular body prompted body dissatisfaction among boys. This article helps in understand the significance of processes of social comparison for comprehending the impact of media in body image on both boys and girls This article utilizes meta»analysis in evaluating the impact of mass media on female body with respect to the effect of manipulations done experimentally on the ideal thin beauty among women Media thin images have a negative impact on body satisfaction compared to average size bodied models on the media. This article supports the understanding of the socio—cultural perspectives that is accrued from mass media on ideal slender body sizes which elicits body dissatisfaction. It also helps us understand the implications of research on processes of social comparison.
