The Impact of the Media on Body Image :: Media

openingIn the recent decades, with the improvement of the living standard, people have been nonrecreational more attention to their own physical appearance. For example, when a person faces to a mirror, he or she will smallk about if his or her height, weight, corpse shape even the hair style be beautiful in nowadays society. Another example is many grandparents cleark their obese grandchildren are healthy, but a large number of adolescents themselves think as thin as fashion models are healthy. Obviously, antithetical people have different clay im succession in mind. In my view, the different culture backgrounds, genders, eld groups or living environments all can cause different organic structure look-alikes. This article will talk about how does the media impact peoples body image and some previous studies in body image will be shown.Literature reviewMedia has become the main behavior for people to get information no matter is the ancient humbug or the latest news. However, the negative impact also comes out. For example, according to a meta-analysis of 25studies from 1979-2001 shows that peoples body images felt more positive afterward seeing a fat media image than viewing a thin media image(Groesz,L.,&Murnen,2007). Thus, the researcher sum up that the slender image can allow people feel satisfaction. As a result, mare and more kind or psychological researcher want to study that how the media influences peoples thinking and use the satisfaction to describe the measure of body image. old study one( body image study in adolescents)The researcher Hill, G.J. who is the assistance professor of Texas Christian University had a study focus on twain main objects. First, to determine media images influence the body image among the collage students. Second, to come about if the media effect collage students body satisfaction(Hill,G.J.,2009). According to him, the abilitiesof people realise body satisfaction and health behavior,are influen ced by mass media images is very important for family and consumer sciences professionals to understand. In this study, there are 184 students who comes from a private university were attended this survey. The average age of student is 21. Both of the male (42%) and female (58%) students were given two sections which were the powerpoint display about the weighu management was developed and the questionnaires after the presentation. Firstly, these 184 students were randomly assigned to figure and experimental groups. The presentation gave the introduction about achievinh health weight, improving have habits even the food guide pyramid.