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Television viewing has been shown to increase body dissatisfaction, but is less frequently associated with the drive to thinness and disordered eating behavior that occurs in women and girls who read fashion magazines.
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Oct 2, 2023 · The detrimental impact of magazine covers on females’ mental health. In 1996, Dr. Hawkins, then a Ph.D. student, embarked on a groundbreaking study examining the impact of magazine covers...
Sep 1, 2010 · The correlation between media image and body image has been proven; in one study, among European American and African American girls ages 7 - 12, greater overall television exposure predicted both a thinner ideal adult body shape and a higher level of disordered eating one year later.
- Eating Disorders and Media
- Repeat Exposure
- Depression, Guilt and Shame
- The Role of Fashion
Several studies have linked women’s magazines to disordered eating behavior, suggesting that young women are particularly vulnerable to the images they see in print media. A 2004 study in Eating Disordersfound that college women who were exposed to “thin-ideal” images from popular magazines were more likely to have decreased body satisfaction, nega...
Frequency of exposure to women’s magazines may also play a role in body dissatisfaction. In one study, researchers found the more often girls read women’s magazines, the more they reported dieting to lose weight – specifically because of an article, a picture, or a feeling that was provoked by reading the magazine. This repeat exposure helps to rei...
In addition to body dissatisfaction, women’s magazines might also add to a negative mental state, according to a study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Researchers found that exposure to slides of women featured in mainstream magazines and ads was associated with increased levels of depression, guilt, shame, stress and insecurity among women.
Fashion magazines, in particular, have been linked strongly to body dissatisfaction. One study published in Adolescencefound that women who viewed fashion magazines were more preoccupied with the desire to be thin – and they were also more afraid of getting fat than their peers. Reading fashion magazines, research suggests, is also more closely lin...
Dec 20, 2022 · In this study, the images of bodies individuals view in their everyday media diet are estimated using a newly developed pictorial scale for women (thinness) and men (muscularity). For participants, the perceived body image is formed through mass media (magazines, TV) and social media (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat).
- 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1009792
- 2022
- Front Psychol. 2022; 13: 1009792.
Oct 18, 2021 · Where once beauty standards were enforced by a handful of magazines and consumer brands, that enforcement has now been outsourced to individual users of Instagram and TikTok, who have more than...
Nov 2, 2016 · The two research questions of the present study ask whether health magazines—those focused on health topics such as diet, exercise, and an overall healthy lifestyle—have a similar effect on female body dissatisfaction and female drive for thinness.
