Author : Anna Gregg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (317 download)
Book Synopsis Media's Impact on Male and Female College Age Students Perspective of Body Image by : Anna Gregg
Download or read book Media's Impact on Male and Female College Age Students Perspective of Body Image written by Anna Gregg and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media images such as commercials on television, magazines advertisements, movies, and internet advertisements portray images of what some individuals consider the ideal female and male body image. These media's image can cause individual to develop a negative body images. Furthermore and most significantly for this study, the media may contribute to how males and females perceive themselves as compared to unrealistic body image by displaying the ideal images as a realistic and necessary means to live a happy life. This research was conducted to determine media's impact on male and female's college age student's body perspective of body image. A modified version of the Determination of Body Image Dissatisfaction and Body Image Distortion Survey developed by Stunkard, Sorensen & Schulsinger (1983) was used. A total of 366 students responded. Results indicated college student are impacted by the media's images and these images influence the individuals' body Image. Results from this survey suggest that the media does have a statistically significant impact on the way young people perceive their body image. Females are more influenced by the media than their male peers. Survey results also indicated that females are most influenced by images in magazines but males are most influenced by images on the internet. Both female and male college students perceive themselves as physically smaller then they really are. Contrary to current research, the older students in this study were more influenced by media images as compared to younger students.