THE IMPACT OF MEDIA EXPOSURE ON MALES BODY IMAGE

By Daniel Agliata, Stacey Tantleff-Dunn. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Marketing

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Inspired by Hope, Motivated by Envy: Comparing the Effects of Discrete Emotions in the Process of Social Comparison to Media Figures (2014, unknown): “…comparisons to idealized media targets appear to contribute to a variety of negative affective states in women, including anxiety, depression, anger, confusion, and low self-esteem (Hawkins et al., 2004; Krayer, Ingledew, & Iphofen, 2008), and depressive mood in men (Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004).”
No harm in looking, right? Men’s pornography consumption, body image, and well-being. (2015, background): “…are found for men: They tend to feel worse about their bodies and experience increased negative affect after viewing mesomorphic male media images (Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004; Arbour & Martin Ginis, 2006; Farquhar & Wasylkiw, 2007; Hargreaves & Tiggemann, 2009; Hobza & Rochlen, 2009; Hobza,…”
Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Male Collegiate Athletes (2008, background): “…that those who were shown advertisements that contained images of lean and muscular men reported a greater discrepancy between their current and ideal body shapes (Leit et al., 2001) and had higher levels of depression and muscle dissatisfaction (Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004) than control groups.”
Body Objectification and Depression in Adolescents: The Role of Gender, Shame, and Rumination (2007, background): “A growing trend toward objectifying portrayals of men in the media (e.g., Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004 ) may be influencing males ’ quest for a perfect body.”
Media images of men: Trends and consequences of body conceptualization. (2007, background): “Whereas the physical form of men in media has been examined to determine its negative effects on men’s self-evaluations (e.g., Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004; Humphreys & Paxton, 2004; Leit et al., 2002; Lorenzen et al., 2004; Murnen, Smolak, Mills, & Good, 2003), research has not yet examined the…”
Male Body Depilation: Prevalence and Associated Features of Body Hair Removal (2005, background): “Heterosexual and gay men (Simpson, 1994; Toerien & Wilkinson, 2003), like women, are subject to the effects of exposure to media on their body image ( Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004 ).”
Average Joes: Men's relationships with media, real bodies, and sexuality (2006, background): “Moreover, experimental exposure to TV images of the male body ideal has led to muscle dissatisfaction (Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004) and larger self-ideal discrepancies (Lavine, Sweeney, & Wagner, 1999).”
In the eye of the beholder: Thin-ideal media affects some, but not most, viewers in a meta-analytic review of body dissatisfaction in women and men. (2013, background): “…there are some individual studies that do suggest males may respond to media ideals, particularly regarding muscularity rather than thinness (e.g., Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004), on balance the research field did not provide sufficient evidence to endorse the belief in pervasive widespread…”
The enigma of male eating disorders: A critical review and synthesis. (2017, background): “…to images of this kind has been found to engender increased levels of body dissatisfaction and negative affect, which in in turn, leads to an increased compensatory drive for muscularity (Agliata & Tantleff-Dunn, 2004; Barlett, Vowells & Saucier, 2008; Blond, 2008; Lorenzen, Grieve & Thomas, 2004).”