Steroid Abuse Study

The rise of steroid abuse has drastically increased the past few years within society due to the pressure of feeling obligated to create a certain type of body image. Unfortunately, there has been studies that claimed 1,084,000 Americans within the adult population abused anabolic steroids (Dr. Tolliver, 2004). Due to the era that we live in and the amount of people found surfing social media accounts, it is hard to stay away from comments about the ideal body image. Consequently, the most underlining reason why males of the east coast shore lines, specifically in New Jersey within the age range of 18-25 unconsciously inject themselves with toxic substances, is to feel aligned with public trends. It is a growing issue that we see in todays
The need to look and feel muscular without being “strong” or doing it for health purposes has drastically grown the past few years. There have been many different similar collections of data to test how much the social media affects males. There need for arms and abdomen to look muscular and fit, the present study examined the moderating effect of men’s visual attention toward male images on the relationship between idealized media exposure and body dissatisfaction (Sanne W. C. Nikkelen, Doeschka J. Anschutz, Thao Ha, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels). Men would tend to take something like anabolic steroids opposed to women just because of the results they get, of course there is both negative affects in both genders, 72% more men over women take it. In interested in studying males between 18 to 25 on the shore lines because this is where you can find beaches. Especially in the summer everyone wants to show off their ‘bods’ to impress the ones around them. Similar study uses fifty male undergrad students to collect their
(Yes it is in a different country, however the results were collected with content from social media. In the first session, participants’ visual attention to nine male body parts was examined using eye-tracking. In the second session, participants watched a nonemotional documentary interrupted by either neutral commercials or commercials containing highly idealized muscular men (2012 Psychology of Men & Masculinity). Reading into this research study certain results were eye-opening, how men actually feel so insecure if they do not have the ‘ideal male’ image. Simple looking at a person to see if they are their reaching point, most of the time it is easily seen that someone ‘juices’ themselves up; they are content with people around them knowing they are on steroids even though it’s the easy way out, compared to working out naturally. The study is highly affected and the results were easily able to understand, visual attention and related preoccupations are difficult to measure using self reports (Lamme, 2003). Moreover, especially in men such measures may be prone to socially desirable responding; men may be ashamed to report that they compare their own body with that of other men, because this may be regarded as feminine (and thus nonmasculine) behavior. Therefore, this study will use eye-tracking to investigate men’s visual attention to male images (2012 Psychology of Men &