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Argosy University

January 27, 2016

Influence of Media on the Body Image

The research question that I raise on the influence of media on the image of a body is, do the partakers trust that the media can be alleged accountable for the texts sent out about the body image? The research question based on the topic is aimed to collect information on the overall response of the community.

A testable hypothesis is developed for the research so as to understand the connection concerning the body fulfillment and the media intake. The theory developed is: There will be an adverse correlation amid the body satisfaction and usage of the media. The study offers purposes to understand that the use of media and the image of a body are correlated negatively. Image of a body is known as being one of the major apprehensions of women, and the study recommends that the disclosure to thin facts in the media has the rule to influence the intensities of satisfaction with an individual’s body. The images percentages that portray thin body image in the media are high; however, the media amount an individual consumes proposes that the correlation with the fulfillment of the body will be in existent.

Citations

Altabe, M., & Thompson, J. K. (1996). Body image: A cognitive self-schema construct? Cognitive Therapy and Research, 20(2), 171-193.

The topic being investigated in the article is about how the image of a body has been a valuable hypothesis for accepting eating ailments. The articled revealed that body image can be well-defined in several methods: One notion of body image is as an adopted outlook of individual form that gives influences and behavior processing of information. The intellectual plan of body image was established in chains of studies. Further current researches have explored perceptive methods with the information of body image, but have paid attention on weight-related image of the body. A grouping of Markus' self-schema concept and the theory of Higgins’ self-discrepancy were utilized to designate a current body image interpretation as a coopted self-representation. The theories predict certain consequences of information processing of an organized intellectual representation. The results confirm the actuality of the representation. Different studies were carried out to test a particular schema-like outlook of the image of body. In the first study, body image plan variables were correlated with outdated body image measures. In the second study, themes exposed to outline relevant subjects displayed information processing concerns consistent with the theory of self-representation. Lastly, instructional set was revealed to adjust the schema activation effect. The influences give body image schema and yield inadequate information evidence concerning the nature of the representation.

Cho, C. H. (2003). The effectiveness of banner advertisements: Involvement and click-through. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 80(3), 623-645.

The study in the article shows that individuals who are extremely tangled with an artifact are highly expected to connect a banner advertisement than the individuals with low product association. The research establish an interface influence of peripheral signals; ad animation and size), and product involvement level on ticking of banner advertisements. However, the optimistic association between banner clicking and peripheral cues is highly prominent amid the ones with low, instead of high, product engrossment. Banner advertisements are method of advertisement found on the Internet. Investigators have planned the efficiency of banner advertisements by reviewing the rates of click-through rates that is occasionally the basis for the pricing of the advertisements. The level of efficiency of the banner advertisement is related to the product association consumer level. Individuals with a level of low-involvement are less likely to connect on the advertisement, conflicting to the ones with a high-product engrossment, and product knowledge.

Harper, B., & Tiggemann, M. (2008). The effect of thin ideal media images on women’s self-objectification, mood, and body image. Sex Roles, 58(9-10), 649-657.

The article is based on the objectification of women. The article explored different forms of objectification. The study was conducted by the women in the society. The results revealed that most of the women in the society are influenced by the media. The research focused of the research was to bring awareness of the possible influences that objectification might cause females. The authors wrote about the media and how objectification could occur even in an environment. Several researchers approve that the society of western has generated a thin best body image. The image is linked in the mass media. The body image of thin ideal is found in fashion and beauty television, magazines, programming and on Internet sites. The research wanted to control the correlation between body dissatisfaction and media consumption, also the motivation to transform the body of an individual. A study was carried out in college age women to collect information. Generally, the research found adequate correlations amid the factors.

Szymanski, D. M., Moffitt, L. B., & Carr, E. R. (2010). Sexual objectification of women: Advances to theory and research. The Counseling Psychologist, 0011000010378402.

The article is grounded on the research that was carried out to categorize the influences the media has on females. The research was conducted through the participants of the women in the society. The study intended to study the effects of women dismemberment in the society. They mainly examine the media and the results revealed the problems that come from the continued women exhibition. The research findings concludes that media is the source of influence and education. The article tries to connect depression and other factors of psychology to the constant negative portrayal of women in the media.

Waller, G., Hamilton, K., & Shaw, J. (1992). Media influences on body size estimation in eating disordered and comparison subjects. British Review of Bulimia & Anorexia Nervosa.

The research in the article examines whether susceptibility to media images of the bodies of females is related to the degree of irregular eating approaches, and whether it is inadequate to bulimics and anorexics. Twenty four women with eating disorders and forty normal controls perceived a chain of photographs from mass circulation magazines that concentrated on the fashion of female. The medical group reacted to the disturbing incentives by increasing their size of body overestimation; nevertheless, the extent of the overestimation was unrelated to the level of the psychopathology. The influences of the pictures on body size approximation were sturdier in the individuals with more pathological eating approaches. A qualitative research concerning the sessions of discussion with women diagnosed eating conditions reported that some women admitted to have cut out models photos from magazines and stuck them up to inspire them to stop eating.