A2 MEDIA RESEARH BLOG 3 + 4 (Updated)

WESTMINSTER COLLEGE
KASEY SERDAR
14/07/15
Female Body Image and the Mass Media: Perspectives on How Women Internalize the Ideal Beauty Standard.
http://www.westminstercollege.edu/myriad/index.cfm?parent=...&detail=4475&content=4795

QUOTES:

• Sociocultural standards of feminine beauty are presented in almost all forms of popular media, barraging women with images that portray what is considered to be the "ideal body."

• Such standards of beauty are almost completely unattainable for most women; a majority of the models displayed on television and in advertisements are well below what is considered healthy body weight.

• Females of all ages seem to be particularly vulnerable to disturbance in this area; body dissatisfaction in women is a well-documented phenomenon in mental health literature

• Images in the media today project an unrealistic and even dangerous standard of feminine beauty that can have a powerful influence on the way women view themselves.

• Numerous studies have verified that one's subjective evaluation of their own appearance can have a powerful impact on a person's development and psychosocial experiences (as cited in Butters & Cash, 1987).

• Researchers have found that body dissatisfaction is correlated with other forms of psychological impairment. Not surprisingly, disturbed body image is one of the main precursors for disordered eating and dieting in adolescent and young adult girls (Attie & Brooks-Gunn, 1989; Stice & Whitenton, 2002; Striegel-Moore & Schreiber, 2000; Tiggemann & Lynch, 2001).

SOURCE 4

http://www.bps.org.uk/news/media-advertising-affects-female-body-image 
14/07/15

•  "We found that women focus more strongly on their appearance when materialistic values are highlighted momentarily to them through priming." -
•  Eleni-Marina Ashikali.