The Negative Effects of Barbie Dolls on Young Girls

Children need to have a good role model to look up. A good example includes ambitious and good things. Most girls look up at a doll named Barbie. This doll has played a very important role in many childhood days. She was released in the 1950s and is manufactured by Mattel. Barbie is always up and coming character who knows about the latest trend. She has long blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes, and her perfect make-up, and she is with her soft body.

Early primary school girl Barbie doll has high ownership. Some people think contact with Barbie has a negative effect on the image of the body. This study attempts to investigate the impact Barbie has on ideal internalization, physical self-esteem, and exposure to physical complaints on young girls. The participants were 160 girls (5-8 years old) from Adelaide, South Australia. They randomly assigned one of three Barbie states (physical touch, body observation, printmaking observation) or management toys

x Ballet: Slimming of a girl, physical self-esteem, ideal internalization of physical dissatisfaction

Mattel, Inc. Barbie made by encouraging unrealistic body images, insensitivity to race, and inconsistent goals, and adversely affects young girls everywhere. Barbie was launched in March 1959 by American business woman and Muttel president Ruth handler, soon became popular and sold three dolls per second in more than 150 countries. - Mind warping: completion of unrealistic body For decades, humiliation of a woman's body has become more influential for young girls and adult women to see themselves. Society creates an image of "perfect woman" based on body music and other limbs. The use of social media is often caused by distortion of women's thinking based on body images, but this is only one of the small factors.

In 2006, researchers Helga Dittmar, Emma Halliwell and Suzanne Ive conducted experiments to test how dolls including Barbie would affect the self-image of young girls. Dittmar, Halliwell, Ive provided picture books for girls aged 5 to 8, one of them is a Barbie picture and the other is a picture of Em. Then the girls were asked about their ideal size. According to their survey, girls exposed to the image of Barbie were found to have significantly lower self-esteem than girls with pictures of Em.