The Media's Pressure on Women to Maintain a Slender Figure

Today's media is putting a lot of pressure on women to maintain a slim body shape. From childhood to adulthood, women are attacked by images of women with stick-skin. There are other factors, but the media is the main reason to stick to obsession. Why is this a popular trend? Society believes that this is acceptable. I found that these perfect women's images will affect ordinary women who want to be like this.

The image of women exposed to slimmed media and the pressure felt by the media adversely affects the physical image and emotional well-being of women and the researchers assess factors that make some girls and women sensitive to this information can. And the image drawn on the media. According to current evidence, the negative effects of the media are more prominent for individuals who are already at risk or are vulnerable (Stice, 2002). A meta-analysis review by Groesz et al. (2002) pointed out, women who internalized slimming ideals and / or have high levels of physical discontent are the most vulnerable. A meta-analytic review by Stice (2002) further suggests that adolescent girls with insufficient early social support and increased perceived stress are also sensitive to media information.

American women feel a lot of chronic stress every day, such as beauty, charm, slim body. Today, women are more aggressive toward slimming, so they tend to apply more pressure to adapt to slimming. Slimming may occupy the top of health at this point, our society's attention to the body image may affect women's emotional and physical happiness (Paquette & Raine, 2004 ). For example, this focus risks many women losing weight, may experience bad shape and low self-esteem, and general frustration to themselves, which can lead to depression (Battle & Brownell, 1996). The stigma associated with obesity has brought about a self-concept of hatred among obese people and those trying to avoid obesity. Fat people lack social recognition and are rated based on obesity over his / her unique personality (Sundaram, 2009)