The Importance Of Body Image In Adolescence

Teenage girls are at an impressionable time in their lives. Mass Media is a key idea in one of the factors of socialization that become important to teenagers. Teenagers look to the media for a sense of entertainment. Whether it is movies, magazines, or even some aspects of social media, teenagers get a lot of influence from the media’s message. The problem with this is the media has a specific way of doing things and can be negative to a susceptible teenage girl. Media’s way of portraying a woman can be skewed and unrealistic way from what reality is. Teenage girls then have a desire for this look or way. In this essay the three ways I will describe as to why the media can negatively affect a teenage girls body image is by showing

Today’s society is a consumers’ society in which trying to obtain perfection is one of the fastest selling businesses (DeLaMater Pg. 12). Mass media, advertising, and fashion industries are being accused of feeding off females dissatisfaction with their bodies by portraying unhealthy thin role models in order to sell their products. This unachievable physique and lifestyle has led today’s adolescence down a dark path of such extreme eating disorders as anorexia and bulimia. Although it may sound nice to be societies perception of thin, there are consequences to these eating disorders such as cardiac failure that lead to horrifying defects or even death.

1. Body image (how you think you look to other people) is an important part of your self-concept and self-esteem. This is especially true during adolescence. Because of the rapid changes taking place, many adolescents are dissatisfied with their bodies. Think back to high school. How did you feel about your body? How do you think these early adolescent feelings have affected how you feel about yourself now?

We all in some point of our lives been, so delighted with a fairy tale movie or a book, but do not think about the drastic consequence it is portraying on having an ideal body image? Over, the decades we have seen how fairy tales have impacted every individual. From having our great grandparents to our parents reading and watching fairy tales at a very young age. Fairy Tales have been a great phenomenon for a very long time. With the making of Cinderella, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, and much more loved by many people. As time his passing, people are realizing that fairy tales are affecting young girls at a very young age. Targeting mainly their body image. Body image is really important for many girls because they need to be up to date with the fashion trends society is putting out there. Now, a day’s many Fairy Tales movies are being created in looking slim, pretty, blonde, long beautiful dress, and perfect with no imperfection. In creating these false expectations on how a girl is supposed to look is drastically changing their minds. Also, is affecting their self-esteem in being low, due to not being satisfied with their body. Young girls want to be a princess because they have everything and receive all the attention. Having the characteristic of a princess is changing girls in evolving a false identity. In having a perfect body like a princess is causing other girls to not fit in because they do not fit in the category of perfect. Although, some accept

Body Image is the way you see your body, and how you feel about your appearance. There are four key proponents associated with Body Image. The first aspect is Perceptual Body Image. This is how you see your body, this may not always be a correct representation of how one really looks. For example, one may see themselves as fat, when in reality they’re thin. The next aspect is Affective Body Image, this is how you feel about your body. Third is Cognitive Body Image, which is how you think about your body. The final aspect is Behavioral Body Image, which is “behaviors in which you engage as a result of your Body Image”. Body Image has two forms.

Body image may be viewed as the way people see themselves and even imagine how they make look based off how they may feel about themselves. Yet it could also be viewed as the way other people see you. Body image, in medicine and psychology refers to a person 's emotional attitudes, beliefs and views of their own body (Positive and Negative Body Image). According to Positive and Negative Body Image, a negative body image develops when a person feels his or her body does not amount up to family, social, or media standards. Many people feel as if they don’t measure up to the belief of others. People who have accepted the way they look often feel good about their image and would be considered to have a positive body image. One’s appearance may not be measure up to how their family expects it to be or how it is perceived to be in the media, but once people learn accept and be proud of the way they look they’ll be better off in the long run. When a person is measured against the standards of the beauty seen frequently in the media and it doesn’t compare to how they feel about themselves it become discouraging. Having said that, long-lasting negative body image can affect both your mental and physical health which could lead to eating disorders down the road.

Your years of being a college educated counselor have paid off. You have a nice plaque representing your accomplishments in the field of counseling. People in the school prefer you over the rest of the counselors. People view you as an inspiration and something that they want to aspire to. You consistently maintain your professionalism, while creating friendships with students. When you created the group Kenowa Connectors (Freshmen orientation workers), allows for freshmen each year to gain comfortability with the high school. Also the friendships you created allows for some of the more popular kids to attend; consequently this has lent that some of the freshmen have connections with upper classmen, reducing the bullying that would have

Each generation as a whole views today’s society differently. Ideal body types have drastically changed throughout the years, each representing their time’s body trends. People looked up to celebrities that illustrated their time’s perfect body. Body trends today are also widely different than trends of the past. Trends are also hyped up on social media platforms, and increase the number of people with bad body image. Body dissatisfaction can come from the rapid growth of social media. Usage of photoshop has also altered some to think that an unattainable body is what one should look like. Plastic and cosmetic surgery has also increased over the past few decades. Millennials are more inclined to get unnecessary surgeries done because they have been brought up thinking it is normal. The combination with body shaming and body dissatisfaction has pushed many to eating disorders. These disorders can even bring out more dangerous consequences that range from minimal to life threatening. Today’s body standards have drastically changed from past generations due to social media, falsified advertising, and the constant desire for impossible body goals.

Everyone has different experiences when growing up and these experiences help us develop our values, our personalities, our characteristics, etc.; these experiences help us discover who we are as people. As for females we know that their experiences will be completely different from those of a male and one of those experiences is how their body is perceived by everyone around them. At a young age everyone becomes quite self-aware of their body, however females tend to be self-aware at a much young age than males due to very visible changes. Young girls are much more susceptible to body image, self-esteem, and eating disorders due to certain expectations they believe need to be fulfilled and media supplies endless content for young girls to

It’s safe to say that, at some point in their lives, every girl has wanted to look like the girl on the magazine cover, or like a Barbie doll. Barbie can start the beginning of young girls body image thinking that they should look like barbie. Also teen girls interpret weight loss advertising as something they should probably do because then care about what they look like for other people and for them. Even women are affected by Magazine models at an older age wishing they looked like the other woman at their age. Everyone can be affected by this problem it could happen everywhere. Advertising and Female icons affect our body image in many ways.

In the emerging generation, teenagers have developed insecurities brought up by body image, advertisements, and the development of social media and its lack of privacy. These insecurities have left a mark on teenagers, and left them with fears of the future and the changes surrounding it.

Body image is often portrayed in the media. For many decades, people have accused the media for portraying an unhealthy body image that is nearly impossible to mold. The rise of social media has affected how we think and how we perceive things. People refer to the media for a clear understanding of what is accepted and what is not accepted in today’s world. So because of this, Jenner’s images may affect young adolescents. Because body images is so important to young teens and even adults today, we desire to look like the celebrities in photos and magazines. Whether she knows it or not, Jenner portrays a body image to teens similar to her age and gives them an idea of what is “perfect”. By doing this, it causes teens to crave for the same traits

Unfortunately, studies show that many young children have already internalized negative body images of themselves. Body image is studied widely in the fields of psychology and psychiatry because of the correlation between body image distortions and eating disorders or self-esteem issues.

90% of highschool girls go on diets daily, when only 10% of those girls turn out to be considered overweight (Davidson). Overweight is a term used for scientists to determine a healthy weight for a certain height, not what girls think they are considered as (Obesity). With more advertising and false model images, teen girls are forming negative body images for themselves because they want an unrealistic look. Models or manikins in stores show the wanna-be image for girls and cause them to obsess over a specific look they think they need to be in order to not be considered “fat.” Girls don’t want to be considered fat because of the social groups that are formed. They don’t want to look bad in front of anybody because they care what others think

proportions. With extremely long legs, a tiny clinched waist, and supposedly large breasts, she gives young women “an unrealistic idea about the way we should look or what we should weigh” (Mirror-Mirror). However, in a study released in 2010, 117 6-10 year old Dutch girls were given one of three toys: an Emme doll, a Barbie doll, or Legos. The girls played for 10 minutes, before the researchers asked the girls questions about their body image. They determined that toy did not affect their body image.