Effect of Television on Self Image of Teenagers in Fiji

Television plays an important role in influencing people. That is one of the main weapons in the media. American girls love popular actresses like Mary - Kate Olsen, Karris Taflock Heart and Victoria Beckham. Teenage girls want to be like them. Therefore, in order to gain such slimming, they often have eating disorders. Alan Goodman of the United States has confirmed the anthropological survey and its statistics in Fiji's "Filming Culture in Fiji" in order to prove that the eating disorder of Fiji teenagers seems to be an actress of the American mass television program It is not just using it.

Teenagers often find themselves and build their identity. Images seen by teens in technology, especially the Internet, TV, movies, have had a great impact on this process. Images in television and movies continue their ideals and norms of images and behaviors of the body and some research institutions like the American Psychiatric Association have teenagers and children often get clues from television believe. In recent years, news media has widely covered the dangers of "pornographic content". Despite controversy on accurate numbers, many teenagers send their porn images and videos on their mobile phones. In prominent cases, teenagers who shared these pictures were charged even with child pornography (msnbc.msn.com). Online teenagers may also be the target of sex predators in chat rooms and social networking sites.

Teenagers are still trying to find out who they are and create their own identity. Technologies, especially technologies seen online and on television, have had a major impact on this. Online and television images make the ideal the basis of behavioral and physical images. Several studies show that children and young people get clues from these things. In addition, factors such as drugs and alcohol use and abuse are expressed as "cool" on the Internet and on television, and children and young people participating in these activities are increasing.

Body images represent people's perception and the imagination of their appearance. It was not born but learned (Ojeda, 2003, p. 8). In a study conducted by Finney's Anne Becker in the mid-1990s, 83% of people found that television thought that it affected recognition and thinking about body image and size (Friedman, 2007). , Page 31). Therefore, the role of media in advertising the ideal body image should not be neglected, as it may adversely affect your image and self-esteem.

Does violence on television have a bad influence on children and adolescents? Violent events on TV are surprisingly harmful. Children and young people are less concerned about TV violence, they lose control, become insensitive, can lead to violence and aggression. Due to television violence, children and adolescents are less concerned, lose deterrence, and are not sensitive. British psychologist William Belson looked at the relationship between violence and television and 1,565 teenage boys in six years each time a child met someone on television. When they are shot or killed, they have less relationship with others (Kinnear 26). William Belson also discovered that whenever a child saw such violence on television, he lost the detention against others (Kinnear 26)