Review of Related Lit Adolescent Body Image
Review of Related Literature
Adolescence is the stage in a girl’s development wherein her self-awareness, self-consciousness, introspectiveness and preoccupation with self-image all dramatically increase (Harter, 1993). There have been many studies that have documented the body dissatisfaction of adolescent girls citing media as a very prominent agent among other factors (Bell & Dittmar, 2011; Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006; Lopez-Guimera, Levine, Sanchez-Carracedo and Fauquet, 2010; Tiggemann & Miller, 2010; Eyal & Ta’eni-Harari, 2013).
Tiggemann, a prominent author on the subject, together with Miller studied how the relation between media and body image in their article “The Role of Media Exposure in Adolescent Girl’s Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness: Prospective Results”.
They found that the individual characteristics of how the participant engages in media and how the participant sees the form of media as, affects the body image and thinness correlation but noted this with regard to media as only magazines and television, which are not the only sources of media that an adolescent girl is exposed to (Tiggemann & Miller, 2010).
The Tiggemann and Miller followed up with a study on “The Internet and Adolescent Girls’ Weight Satisfaction and Drive for Thinness” that detailed the relevance of this “new form” of media comparing it to more traditional ones. The study demonstrated a link between the two and provided practical measures given the increasing rate at which adolescents are exposed to the internet (Tiggemann & Miller, 2010). Although the scale of the study did not match the global reach of the internet that transcends many different cultures, socio-economic classes, etc.
In the article “Does Media Type Matter? The Role of Identification in Adolescent Girl’s Media Consumption and the Impact of Different Thin-Ideal Media on Body Image”, Bell and Dittmar (2011) questioned whether a particular form of media that directly influenced body
Adolescence is the stage in a girl’s development wherein her self-awareness, self-consciousness, introspectiveness and preoccupation with self-image all dramatically increase (Harter, 1993). There have been many studies that have documented the body dissatisfaction of adolescent girls citing media as a very prominent agent among other factors (Bell & Dittmar, 2011; Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006; Lopez-Guimera, Levine, Sanchez-Carracedo and Fauquet, 2010; Tiggemann & Miller, 2010; Eyal & Ta’eni-Harari, 2013).
Tiggemann, a prominent author on the subject, together with Miller studied how the relation between media and body image in their article “The Role of Media Exposure in Adolescent Girl’s Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Thinness: Prospective Results”.
They found that the individual characteristics of how the participant engages in media and how the participant sees the form of media as, affects the body image and thinness correlation but noted this with regard to media as only magazines and television, which are not the only sources of media that an adolescent girl is exposed to (Tiggemann & Miller, 2010).
The Tiggemann and Miller followed up with a study on “The Internet and Adolescent Girls’ Weight Satisfaction and Drive for Thinness” that detailed the relevance of this “new form” of media comparing it to more traditional ones. The study demonstrated a link between the two and provided practical measures given the increasing rate at which adolescents are exposed to the internet (Tiggemann & Miller, 2010). Although the scale of the study did not match the global reach of the internet that transcends many different cultures, socio-economic classes, etc.
In the article “Does Media Type Matter? The Role of Identification in Adolescent Girl’s Media Consumption and the Impact of Different Thin-Ideal Media on Body Image”, Bell and Dittmar (2011) questioned whether a particular form of media that directly influenced body