Television and adolescent body image: the role of program content and viewing motivation

By M. Tiggemann. 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Marketing

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Media Exposure, Current and Future Body Ideals, and Disordered Eating Among Preadolescent Girls: A Longitudinal Panel Study (2006, background): “By focusing on boys’ drive for muscularity and their exposure to hypermasculine media such as professional wrestling, police dramas, music videos, or video games (Scharrer, 2001; Tiggemann, 2005), trends analogous to those observed for girls may well be observed for boys.”
When media become the mirror: a meta-analysis on media and body image (2020, background): “Correlational studies hold their merits on testing the cumulative effects of exposure to media contents, including body surveillance (e.g., Mazzeo et al., 2007), drive for thinness (e.g., Tiggemann, 2005), and eating disorder (e.g., Moriarty & Harrison, 2008).”
The Internet and Adolescent Girls’ Weight Satisfaction and Drive for Thinness (2010, background): “It is likely that time spent on Google, the most visited site, was spent on gathering general information, parallel to the watching of information shows (e.g., news, documentaries) on television (Tiggemann 2005).”
Upward and Downward: Social Comparison Processing of Thin Idealized Media Images (2010, background): “More generally, we (e.g., Tiggemann, 2005b) have argued that insufficient research attention has been paid to the underlying psychological processes that translate media content into body dissatisfaction.”
The processing of thin ideals in fashion magazines: A source of social comparison or fantasy? (2009, background): “, 2002), for social learning, that is, to learn how people behave (Tiggemann, 2005b), in addition to comparing themselves with the images (Tiggemann, Gardiner, & Slater, 2000).”
Facebook Photo Activity Associated with Body Image Disturbance in Adolescent Girls (2014, unknown): “Results are consistent with traditional media effects research findings that exposure to specific TV and magazine genres predicted body dissatisfaction when total media consumption did not.(3,12) Given the correlational nature of the study, causality cannot be established, but it seems likely that t”
The role of the media in body image concerns among women: a meta-analysis of experimental and correlational studies. (2008, methodology): “Table 1 (continued) Study d N Mean age (yrs) Study design Media type Type of control MeasureE C S Harrison (2000) .12 178 14.6 Correlational Magazines BDS-EDI .35 178 14.6 Correlational Magazines DT-EDI .37 178 14.6 Correlational Magazines chEAT Harrison & Cantor (1997) .63 232 20 Correlational Maga”
Assessing Gender-Related Portrayals in Top-Grossing G-Rated Films (2010, background): “Studies show that attributes (e.g., perceptions, beliefs, emotional reactions, expectations, behaviors) of some females’ appearance schema, for example, can be accessed and/or altered with exposure to the mass media (Grabe et al. 2008; Tiggemann 2005 ).”
“Everybody Knows That Mass Media Are/Are Not [pick one] a Cause of Eating Disorders”: A Critical Review of Evidence for a Causal Link Between Media, Negative Body Image, and Disordered Eating in Females (2009, background): “Tiggemann, M. (2005). Television and adolescent body image: The role of program content and viewing motivation.”
The Hairlessness Norm Extended: Reasons for and Predictors of Women’s Body Hair Removal at Different Body Sites (2008, result): “This is consistent with other research that shows a link between body image and the internalisation of the thin beauty ideal on the one hand, and media exposure in the form of fashion magazines and the watching of particular genres of television, but not total television viewing time, on the other (”
Cosmetic Surgery Makeover Programs and Intentions to Undergo Cosmetic Enhancements: A Consideration of Three Models of Media Effects. (2009, background): “…that nearly half of all female adolescents and one-quarter of male adolescents altered their physical activity in an effort to look more like a same-sex media figure, and Tiggemann (2005) found social learning viewing motives associated with negative body image outcomes for both girls and boys.”
The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful (2010, background): “Exposure to messages like these can lead children to develop a dieting awareness (Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006) and body dissatisfaction (Tiggemann & Slater, 2004; Tiggemann, 2005).”
The role of media exposure in adolescent girls' body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness: prospective results (2006, background): “, 1994; Tiggemann, 2003) and appearance schemas (Tiggemann, 2005).”