The Media and Peer Influences on Body Dissatisfaction”

One day, a 6 - year - old Taylor came home from school and asked his mother. "Mom, why is my stomach very fat ... why did I get fat in the school's bathroom?" The articles by Levina Clark and Marika Tiggermann "Outside Culture of Girls 9 to 12 Years: The Influence of Media and Friends on Physical Dissatisfaction" states that adolescence is the most dissatisfied period . However, more and more studies indicate that it may occur early in childhood.

In today's society, young people often touch the utopian world view through the media. In addition, the competition of television, social media, and other peers in the industry will also affect physical discontent, eating disorders, and overall satisfaction with life. A simple solution recommended by many experts is to hang up; however, many experts are not aware that the media is everywhere. With signs, magazines, advertisements everywhere, how do we teach young people not to be affected by the media they are exposed to?

Psychological researchers Christopher Ferguson, Benjamin Winegard, Bo Winegard believe that the influence on the physical dissatisfaction of the media is exaggerated. They believe that the media will not have a serious impact on physical discontent. Instead, they found that, in terms of physical complaints of adolescent young people, their colleagues are more influential than the media.

Negative body images usually contain a difference between what someone thinks they should see and how they actually look. People are affected by family, friends, associates, mass media. The dissatisfaction with the body image can be thought not only of weight and weight but also of skin color, ethnic diversity, physical disability, physical fitness and physical fitness. Men, women, children, teenagers, and adults - everyone may be affected by a negative body image. However, according to the survey, young people are particularly affected. Puberty is usually the beginning of a negative body image, but people can be affected by dissatisfaction of the image of the body to adults without changing conscious efforts

Poor images or physical complaints of the body are usually created by comparing the body and the media and creating the size and shape of the ideal male body, ie slender muscle. It is not uncommon for physically dissatisfied men to concentrate on weight loss and muscle exercise. It could lead to excessive exercise or to use images to improve the image. Certain male groups such as young men, homosexual men, athletes, body builders, models, dancers, etc. are considered to be particularly susceptible to poor body quality and physical anxiety. This is because they are likely to be judged based on their weight and appearance (or they believe they will be judged)