Fashion Models and Women's Body Image
Fashion Models and Women's Body Image

Author: Glenda Morrison

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Advertisers need to start understanding that a black model used for a white audience may not be a hindrance to their ad, but using a white model for a black audience may have a negative effect.

Body Image
Body Image

Author: Sarah Grogan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1134754353

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Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children presents a review of what is presently known and the results of some new research on body image. It compares the effects of gender, sexuality, social class, age and ethnicity on satisfaction with the way we look and suggests how these differences arise. Why, for instance, are heterosexual men much happier with their body images than women or gay men? Sarah Grogan discusses the effect of media presentation of the ideal body and other cultural influences. Surprisingly, despite the almost exclusive media preference for very young female bodies, she finds that older women are not less satisfied with their bodies than younger women. Written for readers from a variety of disciplines, this clear and eclectic book will make the ideal text for students from psychology, sociology, gender and media studies.

Effect of Model Size on Female Adolescents' Body Image
Effect of Model Size on Female Adolescents' Body Image

Author: Kelley M. Gudahl

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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ABSTRACT: Over time, the ideal woman that is presented in the media has been continually shrinking. The media encourage this ideal through programming that portrays the beautiful and successful heroine as thin. Many researchers have linked the internalization of the thin ideal found in the media to body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptomology. This internalization leaves adolescent females constantly pressured to be thin and often leads them to social comparisons. This thesis contributes to the information on the topic by testing how the differences among advertisements containing average-size models, thin models or no models at all have affected a young woman's body satisfaction. None of the previous experiments dealing with the effect of advertising on female adolescents have created their own stimuli to test the differences. The results of this thesis indicate that the body size of models in advertisements targeted to female adolescents is not as influential as once thought. These results suggest that some other factor besides model size is to blame for levels of body-focused anxiety in female adolescents.

Counseling Across the Lifespan
Counseling Across the Lifespan

Author: Cindy L Juntunen

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780761923954

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Counseling Across the Lifespan expands the perimeters of counseling with its emphasis on preventive techniques for adjustment problems in the lifespan of a normal individual. This cogent work focuses on counseling intervention strategies from the unique perspective of an individual’s lifespan, placing techniques in the proper development context. By concentrating on life stages—from childhood through old age—the authors identify the nature and origin of various psychological issues such as self-identity and healthy lifestyle development in adolescents, family violence in young adults, or retirement transitions for older adults. The intervention tools needed to confront these issues are presented through succinct pedagogical features including case examples, checklists for evaluating clients, and exercises.

The Media and Body Image
The Media and Body Image

Author: Maggie Wykes

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2005-01-13

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780761942481

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The Media and Body Image draws together literature from sociology, gender studies, and psychology; brings together new empirical work on both media representations and audience responses; and offers a broad discussion of this topic in the context of socio-cultural change, gender politics, and self-identity.