Media And Eating Disorders Case Study
1. Describe the role media may have in the development of eating disorders.
Over 80% of Americans watch television daily. On average, these people watch over three hours per day.
American children engage in increasing amounts of media use, a trend fueled largely by the growing availability of internet access through phones and laptops. On a typical day, 8 – 18-year-olds are engaged with some form of media about 7.5 hours. Most of this time is spent watching television, though children play video games more than an hour per day and are on their computers for more than an hour per day. Even media aimed at elementary school age children, such as animated cartoons and children’s videos, emphasize the importance of being attractive. Sexually objectified images of girls and women in advertisements are most likely to appear in men’s magazines. Yet the second most common source of such images is the advertisements in teen magazines directed at …show more content…
Those factors include, environment, individual, family, sociocultural and peer pressure. Most youth do drugs to fit in. they are doing them because someone else is doing it or they fear they will not be accepted socially if they do not do them. As far as a youth’s issue progressing to abuse they could do them to feel good which is one of those individual factors. This stimulates chemicals in the brain and frankly they like how it makes them feel. Sometimes an environment is stressful, creates high anxiety etc which leads to the youth starting drugs and if intervention doe not happen the youth can develop an addiction. Another sociocultural factor, is the need to compete with society. Drugs has been rumored to increase performance and abilities in different areas. Lastly, peer pressure can also get that youth to experiment and that can be deadly. All these factors are equally important in my
Over 80% of Americans watch television daily. On average, these people watch over three hours per day.
American children engage in increasing amounts of media use, a trend fueled largely by the growing availability of internet access through phones and laptops. On a typical day, 8 – 18-year-olds are engaged with some form of media about 7.5 hours. Most of this time is spent watching television, though children play video games more than an hour per day and are on their computers for more than an hour per day. Even media aimed at elementary school age children, such as animated cartoons and children’s videos, emphasize the importance of being attractive. Sexually objectified images of girls and women in advertisements are most likely to appear in men’s magazines. Yet the second most common source of such images is the advertisements in teen magazines directed at …show more content…
Those factors include, environment, individual, family, sociocultural and peer pressure. Most youth do drugs to fit in. they are doing them because someone else is doing it or they fear they will not be accepted socially if they do not do them. As far as a youth’s issue progressing to abuse they could do them to feel good which is one of those individual factors. This stimulates chemicals in the brain and frankly they like how it makes them feel. Sometimes an environment is stressful, creates high anxiety etc which leads to the youth starting drugs and if intervention doe not happen the youth can develop an addiction. Another sociocultural factor, is the need to compete with society. Drugs has been rumored to increase performance and abilities in different areas. Lastly, peer pressure can also get that youth to experiment and that can be deadly. All these factors are equally important in my