The Media’s Effect on Adolescent Bodies

What is believed to beautiful in a standard body and today's media the media of influence Barbie body image to the youth of the body, has had a devastating impact on women of adolescence. Female long legs, thin waistline, smooth and perfect skin image can not be ignored. Throughout history, women's body has been displayed as a sales tool that forces people to buy new fancy cars or the latest new equipment to make their daily life easier.

Mass media becomes a powerful force in the world, and strongly influences people's and others's perception. This applies especially to teenagers. In this article, we will explain how media influences the image of the body and self-esteem, and why media has a strong influence on young people. Differences in youth reactions of different ethnic, racial and cultural backgrounds to the media were discussed. This article focuses on girls, but it also evaluates teenage boys data. Finally, in this article, young people become more active media audience, describes the possible approach that can help to prevent a reduction in the common physical self-esteem in adolescence.

The influence of media exposure and physical dissatisfaction is strong between adult males and females, but young men and women seem equally vulnerable. In a recent study published in Journal of Media Psychology, the impact of exposure to media on the physical image of the early teens is being investigated. Because they are particularly susceptible to media influences as they are experiencing biological changes during their puberty, their research is focused on adolescent young people by 2 Israeli researchers focusing on adolescent youth I was wrong. Likewise, the influence of the media plays an important role in the development of personality, pressure from peers, and the development of identity, while adolescent young people are transitioning to adulthood. Pubertal brain development also means the need to develop greater recognition complexity and personality

The dissatisfaction of the body image of the young girl caused a lot of contact with ideal media for slimming. Appearance comparison, peer designation and management are a series of experimental tools used to evaluate the effect of exposure to thin ideal media. The girls in their early teens completed baseline measurements and saw thin ideal media images after 1 week before and after they evaluated the state of physical satisfaction. These findings provide facts to support the development of media literacy-based body image intervention (Mclean, Paxton & Wertheim 2016)