The mass marketing of disordered eating and Eating Disorders: The social psychology of women, thinness and culture

By S. Hesse-Biber, P. Leavy, Courtney Quinn, Julia Zoino. 2006

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Marketing, Museology

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Pro-anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-ana Body Online (2012, background): “Medical and psychological research indicates that eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness; about 10 percent (Gremillion, 2002; Hesse-Biber et al., 2006; Koski, 2008; Warin, 2009).”
The Costs of Consumer Culture and the “Cage Within”: The Impact of the Material “Good Life” and “Body Perfect” Ideals on Individuals” Identity and Well-Being (2007, background): “Maybe not surprisingly, unhealthy and extreme body-shaping behaviors, such as eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, or steroid abuse appear to be on the increase (eg, British Medical Association, 2000; Cafri et al, 2005 ; Hesse-Biber, Leavy, Quinn, and Zoino, 2006 ).”
Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption: quantifying dependences of countries on food imports due to domestic land and water constraints (2013, background): “However most people do not eat what they nutritionally need; quantity and type of consumption is linked to culture, income, socioeconomic conditions, fashions and other factors (e.g. Wang 2001, Hesse-Biber et al 2006).”
The Relationship Between Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders and Internet Use, Part II: An Integrated Theoretical Model (2016, background): “Contrary to sociocultural theory, gratifications theory restores the agency of the individual in seeking out media exposure and selectively tailoring their media environment to their choices (Hesse-Biber et al. 2006).”
Gender Differences in Video Game Characters’ Roles, Appearances, and Attire as Portrayed in Video Game Magazines (2007, background): “The influence of the media on young women’s body image have led researchers to speculate that media might also play an important role in negative behaviors such as eating disorders (Hesse-Biber et al. 2006).”
Americanized beauty? Predictors of perceived attractiveness from US and South Korean participants based on media exposure, ethnicity, and socio-cultural attitudes toward ideal beauty (2009, background): “They argue that these theories offer a ‘nexus of influence and provide important clues to our understanding of the pervasive influence and impact of these industries on the development of Eating Disorders in women’ (Hesse-Biber et al., 2006, p. 208).”
Integrating Social Comparison Theory and Self-Esteem within Objectification Theory to Predict Women’s Disordered Eating (2010, background): “Thus, women are reminded by others to evaluate their bodies and other women’s bodies against this “American ideal of female body image” (Hesse-Biber et al. 2006, p. 208).”
Objectification Theory Predicts College Women’s Attitudes Toward Cosmetic Surgery (2010, background): “In addition to the significant depletion of women’s economic resources (Hesse-Biber et al. 2006; Tiggemann and Rothblum 1997), this high percentage of women undergoing cosmetic surgery is particularly troubling because of the numerous deleterious consequences associated with these procedures, which ”