Ideal Female Body Image

The depiction of a perfect woman's body image by the media is shocking. It is the greatest contributor to the dissatisfaction of many young women. In the early days, the girls were introduced to the perfect body ideal; from the emergence of Barbie to the launch of various Disney Princess films, they all released an unrealistic depiction of a woman's perfect woman's body. Young girls are so sensitive that they are more sensitive to the ideal image of zero waist.

Over the years, people have always believed that idealized body images displayed in advertisements have a negative impact on women's perception of self-concept and body image. Researchers believe that the idealized image of a woman's body in advertising has a direct or indirect adverse effect on female body image satisfaction, self-concept, and in extreme cases, feeding behavior It is. According to Lucas, Crowson, OaposFallon, and Melton (1999), the thin ideal woman's body depicted on the media is consistent with an increase in eating disorders. "This thinks that women and young girls will apply unnecessary pressure to advertise and portray the most successful image, adapting to a particular body image, rather than their learning or economic independence image"

We documented and quantified more desirable form changes of women in Western culture over the past 20 years (3). Many studies have shown that body images are an important issue for women. Body images are described as multidimensional structures describing the subjective representation of the body and the appearance of the body (4). The internal representation of a person's own body includes cognitive and sensory elements (5). In addition, eating disorders have been shown to be prevalent among women, and over 90% of eating disorders are between the ages of 12 and 25 (6, 7, 8). Studies have shown that these factors (both body images and eating disorders) exist in elite performers, ballet dancers, professional dancers in certain sports and sports activities (8). However, there are few reports from participants of the dance team (9, 10, 11).

A comparison of body image perception of competition dancer, fitness team and non-dancer of female college student

In this new era, the ideal body image will affect almost everyone, including men and women, people with different cultural backgrounds. It is always unhappy to the image of the body because it always leads to eating disorders, psychological distress, and most importantly, low self-esteem. This is because we tend to use unhealthy weight management behaviors such as not to eat to lose weight, because we want to have the same body image as the model drawn on the media. Therefore, as this problem affects individuals and society, it is important to take preventive and interventional measures to prevent and treat dissatisfaction with body images. Finally, the identification of research questions, especially among undergraduates, also makes more attention to investigate this problem.