Media Vs Body Image

Who controls the media and controls the mind. Jim Morrison. Since World War II the media has promoted a lighter body image to achieve an increasingly desirable size. The media has more influence on our lives and influences everyone's feelings about their images. Research shows that body images are closely related to self-esteem. Puberty inferiority can lead to eating disorders. The most common eating disorder in the United States is a serious psychological disorder characterized by anorexia, loss of appetite and bulimia, and using various methods after rapidly increasing food. Vomiting and abuse etc

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Recently we know that the media closely relates to the image of the body. In particular, the image advertisement of the body depicts the image that affects our own body. Of course, there are many other factors that influence our body image: child rearing, education, intimacy etc. However, popular media has a big influence. Americans spend 250 billion hours a year to watch television. According to California State University Northridge, advertisement accounts for about 30% of all TV broadcasting time. Ordinary children see commercials of 20,000 TVs a year. Of course, it is not the place where only the TV watches advertisements. Popular magazines, especially women's magazines and many young people's magazines, are filled with advertisements. Pop-up ads are also displayed on the web.

Images that we see in mass media (television, movies, internet, video games, magazines) can affect the body image and sometimes interfere with the development of healthy body images. These images tend to be more repetitive and advertising tends to have a very slim and attractive model. The exposure of the media may affect the image of the body by sending information about what it means that it is the ideal body shape, size, weight. This exposure puts pressure on individuals to achieve thin and attractive ideals portrayed by the media. For women, this ideal usually includes slimness and appeal, for men the ideal is tall, thin, muscular and masculine. People are beginning to measure whether they are breaking these unrealistic ideals and are confirming that they are abbreviated.

Recent studies have revealed that the media image of an "ideal" female model affects the body image of women, leading to dissatisfaction and emotional distortion. Review the evidence of this relationship between media presentation and body image distortion and propose a theoretical model to explain this association. In particular, the use of social comparisons in women's self-concept seems to be an important psychological structure to understand the influence of media on physical images. Based on empirical evidence and the proposed psychological mediator, several measures have been proposed that might be used to block the effects of the media or to address these effects. Especially, it seems that psychoeducational education prevention measure and group treatment gives the greatest hope.