Body Image Concerns in Young Girls: The Role of Peers and Media Prior to Adolescence

By H. Dohnt, M. Tiggemann. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Marketing

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Influence of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disordered Attitudes and Behaviors in Females: A Review of Effects and Processes (2010, background): “The complexity of this matter is illustrated in a recent study by Dohnt and Tiggemann (2006a) that explored peer and media influences on body image concerns and dieting awareness in 128 girls ages 5 to 8 years old.”
The role of the media in body image concerns among women: a meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies. (2008, background): “…& Hefner, 2006); that frequent viewing of appearance-focused television among girls predicts lower levels of appearance satisfaction one year later (Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006b); and that frequent magazine and television exposure among teenage girls each predict higher levels of internalization, core…”
Real Women Have Curves (2008, neutral): “…girls and women supports this premise; findings indicate associations between greater body dissatisfaction and more frequent television viewing (Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006; Harrison & Cantor, 1997; Schooler, Ward, Merriwether, & Caruthers, 2004; Tiggemann, 2003), more frequent exposure to…”
Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research (2014, background): “Perceptions of peers’ normative concerns can, of course, exert direct impacts, as exemplified by evidence that Australian girls who believed that their friends wanted a slimmer ideal figure desired a slimmer figure themselves (Dohnt and Tiggemann 2006).”
When media become the mirror: a meta-analysis on media and body image (2020, background): “…sizes analyzed in the present study indicated that media effects, especially perceptions and behaviors (e.g., internalization and disordered eating behavior), tend to result from long-term exposure, instead of short-time exposure, to appearance-related media contents (Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006).”