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    the tremendous exposure to the media has a negative impact in the consumers and their health, as well as their body image. The ideal body image that is seen by today’s society is tall, thin, muscular, and fit. It is constantly advertised in various forms of media including, such as televisions, magazines, internet, and smartphone devices, which make others feel insecure about appearance and health. The constant reinforcement of the ideal body image throughout the media negatively impacts society through

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    MEDIA AND WOMEN’S SELF-IMAGE This paper will discuss the view that the media generally has a negative impact on the self-image of women. The evidence to support this view has been provided by the arguments of women writers and the findings of empirical studies over the years. Media representations present an ideal for female appearance and behavior. Women, especially those who are young and impressionable, accept this seemingly authoritative ideal and develop a negative self-image when their own

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    tool - it shows us who we are and who we want to be. Images of the body are just as powerful. The media uses bodies to sell anything from cars to food. While this media tool is very successful, it has a downside in today’s world, and is often very negative toward peoples bodies. Simply stand in a queue at a shopping centre and you will find yourself surrounded by magazines advertising weight loss plans, fashion, and the best diet to take. The media uses this tool to it’s advantage - the promise of a

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    influence of the media on all aspects of culture and society has been a issue around the world. One of the social cultural aspects particularly influenced by the media is body image. A surprisingly large number of individuals, the majority of which are young women, develop their body image in with the ideas advanced by the media, which judge women’s attractiveness based on how thin they are. Body-image plays a very important role in our individualistic society. Modern beauty image standards which

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    The Negative effects of the Media on Women's Body Image In America’s society today it is proven that Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape which is portrayed by Americans in the media. Negative self-perception of women is an exceptionally interesting issue nowadays. It has been brought to many individuals attention that the body size of women portrayed in the mass media has increasingly gotten smaller and smaller over the

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    trying to achieve the unrealistic ideal image that media has created. This idea on how the body should look floods modern media and women are discriminated upon if they are unable to meet these strict physical requirements. However, unknown to the masses, the majority of the physical characteristics portrayed are achieved from digital enhancement and not only the product of weight loss. It is my goal within this paper to discuss the population is

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    18 March 2015 The Media and It’s Impute on Body Image There are no questions to whether the media has influenced the self-consciousness people have on their body or not. Whether it is the front of a magazine cover or in a film or television show, the selection of models or actors are primarily thin or fit leading readers and viewers to worry or want to change the way their body looks. Body image is the way one sees oneself and imagine how one looks. Having a positive body image means that most of

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    Today, we are always surrounded by a variety of media and we identify ourselves in parts of those images we see. Media believes women should look like Victoria Secret models: tall, lean, and tanned women, but lately there has been issue from women all over the world who are tired of having to be set at impossible types of female figures. Revolving around a certain type of body figure is horrible because bodies come in different shapes and sizes. The media has influenced the female body perception by

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    As society is progressing, body image is ever changing. Now more than ever, we are witnessing different body types being displayed in popular media. Despite these advances, advertisements and other media platforms continue to push unrealistic and damaging body images on both men and women. Beginning in childhood, young girls and boys are influenced by the distortion and objectification of body image. Girls are taught that the most desirable body is one that is thin and proportioned (Helgeson, 2016)

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    social media, self-esteem, diet and sex have on Body Image Dissatisfaction. BSc Psychology, Full-Time, Year 2. Advance Research Methods In Psychology Module: 1PSY501 The influence the social media, self-esteem, diet and sex have on body image dissatisfaction. ABSTRACT The influence the social media, self-esteem, diet and sex have on body image dissatisfaction was investigated using a multiple regression method. The four predictor variables were sex; social media; diet;

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