The study will be investigating women’s pressure to be thin, as the dependent variable, and media pressure, socio-cultural influence, aging-related alarm in relation to appearance, perfectionism, body dissatisfaction, and stress and depression, as the independent variables. The surveys will be designed with open-ended questions to encourage the participants to provide full and meaningful responses concerning the research topic.
The questions that will appear in the survey include:
1) How old are you?
2) Do you have any children?
3) How many are you in your family?
4) How many times do eat in a day?
5) Which kinds of food do you like eating every day?
6) What do you feel should be the ideal body size and shape?
7) How well do size and shape represent an ideal body?
8) How does the ideal female body size and shape differ from one woman to another?
9) How does accessibility to media images influence your feelings concerning your body shape and size?
10) Which kinds of physical exercises do you engage in to help you maintain your ideal body image?
11) How often do you engage in such physical exercises?
12) Which kinds of food do you usually avoid to enable you to maintain your ideal body image?
13) What usually drives you to eat? Is it physical hunger, anxiety, depression, or sadness?
14) What tells you when to eat? Is it your body or emotions?
15) What is your opinion about fattening and eating high-calorie food?
16) How do you usually feel eating food that is rich or high in calories?
17) How do you usually feel when you find out that your body weight has increased?
18) How often do you engage in talks about women’s body image?
19) What feelings do you usually experience during such talks?
20) Which advice can you give to fellow w...
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According to the article “Enhancing Your Body Image” by Rebecca J. Donatelle, the author discusses the importance of body image. Body image is simply how you see yourself in either a positive or negative manner. It is a crucial in human development and shapes who you are as an individual. Body image can be expressed through body language, how you are
This article examined the effect of media’s glorification of the thin ideal on women as self-objectification. The factors which triggered the beginning of the self-objectification were also stated as the woman’ emotional state and personality. Then the article discussed the experiment done, which compared the effect of intensive exposure of thin models magazines and magazines advertising products without people. Additionally, the author offered detailed description of how those effects, self-objectification, appearance anxiety, negative mood and body dissatisfaction, were measured. In the last section, the author illustrated the results, which showed that the group exposed to thin-idealized models scored higher number in all the previously-stated measures compared to the group exposed to products’ images.
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There are three variables that affect the body image one perceives about themselves, the first according to Thompson and Stice is “internalization if the thin-deal, that is, the endorsement of the media-prescribed ideal as part of one’s own personal belief system” (Thompson & Stice qtd. in Ashikali et al. 143). (Alvarez 4)
Over the past five years the way media has depicted the perfect woman to have a specific size has caused many women to have problems with body image in their everyday life. The specific size that the media portrays is a super thin woman, who has very little fat, and is tall and slender. One health issue low self-esteem can be caused by how the media portraying the super thin woman making females feel bad about what their body type is and how they look when they compare themselves to the media’s portrayal of the super thin woman. Another health issue that females can develop is disorders. Disorders are serious problems and cannot be overseen. Overseen disorders can cause many health problems and even death. Weight issues is also another health related problem caused by the media’s portrayal of the super thin woman.Weight issues can be caused by excessive dieting and eating disorders. An abundance of females have problems with their weight every day. Whether it is the female feeling like she is too fat or even in some cases the female feeling like she is too skinny. In the United states, the media’s portrayal of body image has been a key factor in many females’ lives and distorts the perception of how the females’ picture themselves and how they treat their bodies based on the media’s portrayal of the “perfect woman.”
Wiseman, C., Gray, J., Mosimann, J., & Ahrens, A. (1992). Cultural expectations of thinness in women: An update. International Journal Of Eating Disorders, 11(1), 85--89.
Women are bombarded by images of a thin-ideal body form that is extremely hard, if not impossible, to emulate. Comparing themselves to these women can lead to feelings of inadequacy, depression, and an overall low self-esteem. (Expand on, need a good opening paragraph to grab the reader’s attention)
It has been said time and time again that media heavily influences the desastisfied body image, may women and girls enconter. Previous studies have shown how over expouser to the hyper-sexualized ads and images in the media lead to a distortion of body image in women and girls. However, there is yet another factor that influences the decline of body image just as much. Peer competition has been shown to contribute to this decline as well. Peer competition is any rivarly for supermacy amongst those of the same age group or social group. A recent study shows that women’s body dissatisfaction is influenced by peer competition with other rather than depictions of women in the media. Muñoz and Ferguson, (2012) developed a study in order to further understand the influence of inter-peer pressure in body dissatisfaction.
Body image dissatisfaction is increasingly identified as an essential target for public health action ( Paxton , 2002, P. 2) Body image refers to a person’s unique perception of his or her body. It is how we perceive our selves, how we think we appear to others and how we feel about our looks from “our own internal view”. ( Nio, 2003, P3). This internal view is associated with the person’s feelings thoughts and evaluations. It can either be positive or negative. Negative body image could be associated with low self esteem. This could include low willingness to be involved in activities due to poor body image. Self-esteem is an important psychological need of human beings. It is very essential for a person to have a positive body image in order to face and overcome challenges in life. It helps to boost motivation and mental attitude.
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