Reducing the impact of media images on women at risk for body image disturbance: Three targeted interventions.

By Heidi D. Posavac, Steven S. Posavac, R. G. Weigel. 2001

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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For Your Health? The Relationship Between Magazine Reading and Adolescents' Body Image and Eating Disturbances (2003, background): “Posavac, Posavac, and Weigel (2001) found that college women who received a media literacy intervention were less likely to engage in social comparison and, as a result, were less influenced by media images.”
Social comparison as a predictor of body dissatisfaction: A meta-analytic review. (2009, methodology): “…Images 0.228 Study 2 181 Female 22 Student Experimental Inferred Images 0.522 Study 3 53 Female 22 Student Experimental Inferred Images 1.572 Posavac et al. (2001) 125 Female 21.5 Student Experimental Inferred Images 1.141 Rallis et al. (2007) 79 Female 32.45 General Correlational Measured…”
The Role of Social Comparison in the Effect of Magazine Advertisements on Women's Mood and Body Dissatisfaction (2004, background): “Along with a number of authors (Cattarin, Thompson, Thomas, & Williams, 2000; Faith, Leone, & Allison, 1997; Heinberg & Thompson, 1992, 1995; Posavac et al., 2001), we suggest that social comparison provides the mechanism by which acute exposure to media images induces negative effects.”
Reality check: An experimental investigation of the addition of warning labels to fashion magazine images on women's mood and body dissatisfaction (2012, background): “, 2009), compare themselves with the models (Posavac et al., 2001), or the extent to which weight related self-discrepancies might be activated (Dittmar et al.”