Adolescents Body Image

One concern is Jane’s developing body image issues. Sociocultural factors play an important role in the development of body image in adolescence. Students are influenced by television, the internet, and magazines who portray unrealistic body images. This can lead adolescents to experience body dissatisfaction. (Carney & Scott, 2012).

The culture of media has now taken a large affect on young girls and their body images. Young girls are feeling dissatisfied with their bodies because of the way society views women. The media tells us what to look like, what clothes to wear, make-up, what cars to drive, and sometimes what to eat. Media is changing people constantly through advertising and by showing us the looks and fashions of celebrities. Advertising has negative effects on the formation of oneself as seen through the nature of the promotion of its’ products. This effect is particularly prevalent among young adolescent girls. Young girls feel the need to join dietary plans or result to eating disorders Advertising in society results in negative effects on girls through self-image that leads to harmful consequences. The media is the biggest factor contributing to girls’ dissatisfaction with their bodies, causing eating disorders.

Teens who are in college have just as many problems with their body as people in high school. The media affecting people of all ages can consist of anything from people on social media, to celebrities on T.V., to the models who walk on runways. People who struggle with their body image are all over the world and are often closed off to other people. When girls look at magazines they see all of the models posing and then they compare themselves to them because the models are what society says is pretty, and they aren’t. Media is a great way for companies to get their products out there, but when adolescents compare themselves to models, they will start to have body image issues.

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Negative body image has become a pandemic which has spread to nearly every country. This affliction knows no boundaries, limitations, or prejudices. Cases of this issue can be found in all age groups, socioeconomic levels, races, ethnicities, and genders. The causes of this affliction can be pinpointed to the mass media, familial pressures, and the ever changing standards of beauty.

You will try to protect them while allowing them to find their own way. The message adolescents receive from their parents about body image is very powerful. Positive body image is a big part of an adolescents` self-esteem. If children don’t like the way they look or are dissatisfied with their bodies, their self-esteem will suffer. How they see themselves can affect every aspect of their lives either negatively or positively. “A healthy body image in childhood can lay the foundation for good physical and mental health later in life. An unhealthy body image in childhood can have long-lasting consequences” (RCN). It affects their choices, both long-term and short-term. It can impact their ability to meet people and make friends. Most adolescents are confused or concerned about the changes going on in their body. Having a close relationship with their parent’s and being able to talk about how they feel can help them understand. Family life sometimes can have an influence on the child’s body image. The relationships that adolescents have with their peers, family, and members of their social group play an important role in their development and how they will view their body. Adolescents who have a good relationship with their parents are less likely to engage in risky behavior. If adolescents constantly hear their parents speak negatively about themselves, they could start thinking the same things about their bodies, but if the parent has a good body image for themselves, then the adolescent will have a better chance of feeling the same way about themselves. Adolescents will model the same actions they see from their parents. As parents, it is also important to encourage adolescents to take pride in their appearance, but also to emphasize the deeper qualities that matter more than just what is seen on the outside. As the adolescent begins to try different styles the parent can help with their self-esteem by

　　　Being constantly bombarded with these images of false perfection causes girls to have low self esteem. A persons body image is closely related to their self-esteem (Huebscher, 2014). During adolescence is when girls bodies go through puberty and they gain more body fat (Rierdan, Koff, 1997). During this time the rates of depression in adolescence increase (Rierdan, Koff, 1997). According to Huebscher paper,"concerns about the body have been documented as widespread among female populations, with adolescence considered an especially vulnerable period

When teens are exposed to the media and advertisements showing the perfect body many will try to obtain that body to fit in socially. The Council on Size and Weight Discrimination, states, "young girls are more afraid of becoming fat than they are of nuclear war, cancer, or losing their parents." While trying to lose more weight than is healthy teens can develop eating disorders to deal with their both emotional and physical issues. It is not just young girls who face problems with poor body image it is also boys. In the writing, Body Image, it goes on to say, “Teenage boys are also affected by body image concerns, although they primarily strive to build muscle mass and gain weight." The need to fit into what they feel is socially acceptable and grow into their every changing body can cause everlasting damage. In the text, Body Image, it says, “Teenagers learn what society considers an ideal physique primarily from the media.” It should be the advertisers’ responsibility to make sure positive images are in the media to help promote good health among

My literature review paper includes several very recent studies that address the cognitive and behavioral components of body image and dieting in young children and adolescents. I discuss what is known and what is still not understood about body image in children around the world today. I give examples of holistic programs developed for school and community involvement in body image awareness. I attempt to show the complexities of the issues about body image and conclude with (what I feel might be) the most effective method (to date) for incorporating healthy body image awareness into the community and instilling realistic goals within each individual child.

Over a period of time the media has portrayed body image in young women and the effects have been so damaging that majority of young women have developed eating disorders and self-oriented perfectionism. Magazines, social media, and television have been the linked sources of influence. You have to look like a Victoria Secret model or try to look like a “top” model (a television reality show). To look the “norm” is too be thin, and in the minds of some young girl’s, an eating disorder is the only way to become thin. Life satisfaction is when individuals evaluate the value of their life by their own standards. Young girls tend to struggle with social transitions which can affect their perception of their body image and their life satisfaction. Adolescence is a period in time of young lives where reflection on appearance and body image may take a toll on their life satisfaction.

They continuously portray a message to adolescent girls to look a certain way. It has become the culture in society to judge people by their outward appearance which makes teenage girls more obsessive about their own bodies (Kruger, 2007). Weight loss is usually linked to a happier and successful life and society’s obsession with diets and exercise contribute enormously to body image issues (Marsh, 2015). Teenage girls are being continuously exposed to media such as TV, internet and magazines where they are barraged with unrealistic and unobtainable body image standards from high profile celebrities and models. Most of the celebrities and models in media are clinically underweight and study shows that they generally weigh 23% less than the average woman (Just Say YES, 2015). The images used in media which teenage girls constantly aspire to be like are usually air-brushed and photo shopped (Kids Helpline, 2015). Due to all this pressure teenage girls choose unhealthy ways to fit the unrealistic body image and as a result develop eating disorders and other health issues (Gross,

Adolescence is the stage of identity versus role confusion based on Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development (Javellana, 2014). This is the stage where individuals attempt to find their own identity (Dinç & Alisinanoğlu, 2010). Today’s adolescents live in a world surrounded and defined by media. They are heavy users of media and many of which proffer unhealthy and unrealistic body images for adolescent viewers (Hogan & Strasburger, 2009).

Adolescents experience many changes, both physical and psychological, due to puberty and psychological development (Brown, et al., 2014). They are more susceptible to peer influences and more concerned with how they look compared to pre-adolescent years (Brown, et al., 2014, p. 365). Consequently, body image dissatisfaction is at its peak in adolescents and affects well over half of adolescent females and over a third of adolescent males (Littleton & Ollendick, 2003; Pelegrini & Petroski, 2010). Dissatisfaction with ones’ own body has a multitude of contributing factors and correlates. It affects youth of many body sizes, including those in normal weight and underweight categories, but overweight adolescents fare the worst with 90% being dissatisfied

Rapid changes in a young developing body can be crucial, leaving long term health issues that are difficult to reverse and possibly lead to death. Today’s media has an immense influence on how teens view themselves in regards to what is considered beautiful. Exposure to the media has pressured teens to feel like they need to change their body image to be model perfect and fit what the media considers “beautiful”. Media portrayal of beauty and youth can cause insecure teens to alter their diet and lifestyles causing serious mental and physical health issues. Often these changes can be drastic causing the body to freak out and not work the same way it used to. The effects of rapid changes would be depression, weight gain, weight loss, weak immune systems and collapsing organs.

Self-esteem is an issue that often begins in early childhood. Many girls aged seven to twelve are at risk for developing low self-esteem and body image. This puts them at risk for other things, such as eating disorders, drinking, and bullying (Hartocollis). The girls who are already developing low amounts of self-esteem are already getting plastic surgery and wearing Spanx to prevent being bullied even further or have a chance of raising their own self-esteem (Dockterman 1). The problem is that young girls are “looking for self-love in all the wrong places” from our parents, friends, and even strangers (Krauthammer). The thing about self-esteem is it contains a very important word: self. However self-esteem is so often influenced by what other people’s validation that we forget to appreciate ourselves.