Society’s Expectations of a Female’s Body Image

Social expectations for women's body image society plays many roles in people's lives. The greatest role society plays for women is how women should appear. Women are very thin and look beautiful on the entire cover of television, movies, and magazines. People who saw these famous women began to idealize the image of their bodies. Men can also imagine these famous women and believe that all women should have this slim appearance. With the arrival of 2000, the weight of actresses and models has decreased, and the bodies they wander have become more visible to the public.

In today's society, women tend to focus on issues related to women and their bodies, based on popular culture, stereotypes, and generalization on women's handling. However, there are many things that men's struggle has as many physical images as women and not recognized in the struggle to respond to social expectations. Men suffer from diet and physical illness, but as women do, media, women, and even others have expectations.

Cultural backgrounds and social classes People living in different cultures and societies may face different pressures on the image of their bodies. This is because images of the body may be influenced by cultural aesthetic criteria (Grogan, 1999), women are always to evaluate themselves through their own culture. When the perception of the individual's body meets cultural standards, this enhances individual self-esteem (Rudd & Lennon, 1994). In Western society, slimness is related to happiness and social acceptability, overweight is related to laziness and loss of control. Western culture provides a range of acceptable body images for men and women, and individuals who can not reach the prescription may be biased or stereotyped by others.

Body image sex difference There are many studies showing that women are more dissatisfied with men than men and that dissatisfaction of female body figures is stable throughout their lifecycle (Tiggemann, 2004). Women tend to raise self-esteem by appeal, whereas men tend to increase self-esteem through achievement, power status and control, whereas women tend to increase self-esteem by attraction (Goward P., 1992). Women tend to think that they are overweight, pay more attention to their physique and appearance. However, according to Pope, H. According to Phillips and Olivardia (2000), in Western society, men are strongly asked to acquire and maintain a slender but muscular body. This is because if the male's body is dissatisfied, the man may face problems such as low self-esteem or use of human growth hormone (Pope et al., 2000). However, there is still a lack of research to study dissatisfaction of male body images