Effects of Media on Adolescents’ Body Image

Paul Hamburg, Harvard Medical School of Medicine, says: "By creating a ridiculous ideal with a real body, the media will persist the frustration and disappointment markets. Since the media shows a perfect ideal that audiences can not achieve, young people see their bodies Advertising can be seen anywhere on television, movies, magazines, bulletin boards, even on the Internet Media is drawing the body as the main goal that the audience should try to achieve.

The basis of this research paper is investigating the influence of mass media on the body image of adolescent girls. The media has had a very strong impact on almost all societies, especially young girls. Mass media draws an unrealistic and beautiful image. And it makes many girls to be serious and life-threatening. The girls are taking extreme measures to imitate unrealistic beliefs toward society towards beauty. As a result diet pills, eating disorders, and cosmetic surgery have become too general for adolescent girls. This research report shows the latest information on this issue and some possible solutions.

Research over the physical image of children and adolescents flourished during the past 20 years. This study is based on both the impact of bad physical image on children and adolescents, as well as both childhood and adolescent physical complaints that can lead to disability and eating disorders and risk of depression in adulthood I benefited. However, existing research is still primarily descriptive and characterized by methodological problems. The purpose of this paper is to identify the large gap in the literature on the physical image of children and adolescents. The focus is concentrated on four main problems: (1) measurement, (2) epidemiological data, (3) development trends, and (4) gender impact. Addressing these and related problems will help develop therapeutic and preventive programs

Body images are very important issues for most teenagers, especially as they become adults. Many studies on the effects of body images and self-esteem have been in progress for ten years. However, body images have always been the focus of research in many countries such as the US and South Korea, but Malaysia has not been extensively studied in Malaysia, as research on body images is limited. Although there is research on the body image, most research focuses only on the body image of a woman, not a male body image.