“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…

By Michael Levine, Sarah K. Murnen. 2009

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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The Relationship Between Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders and Internet Use, Part II: An Integrated Theoretical Model (2016, background): “Body image concerns and eating pathology also predominantly appear during adolescence, and have been shown to develop within a sociocultural context (Levine and Murnen 2009; Von Soest and Wichstrøm 2009).”
The Role of Self-Objectification in Disordered Eating, Depressed Mood, and Sexual Functioning Among Women (2011, background): “Specifically, girls might be educated from an early age about the ways of the media and armed with tools to enable the critical analysis and deconstruction of media images (e.g., Levine & Murnen, 2009).”
Does Media Type Matter? The Role of Identification in Adolescent Girls’ Media Consumption and the Impact of Different Thin-Ideal Media on Body Image (2011, background): “The mass media may be seen as the single biggest purveyor of this ideal, promoting an unrealistic and artificial image of female beauty that is impossible for the majority of females to achieve (Levine and Murnen 2009).”
Media Exposure, Body Dissatisfaction, and Disordered Eating in Middle-aged Women (2011, result): “This finding is in contrast to that typically found with undergraduate women, for whom magazine exposure is generally more detrimental (Levine & Murnen, 2009).”
Media Exposure, Extracurricular Activities, and Appearance-Related Comments as Predictors of Female Adolescents’ Self-Objectification (2015, background): “Lindberg et al. (2006) demonstrated evidence of internal consistency (α = .”
Facebook Photo Activity Associated with Body Image Disturbance in Adolescent Girls (2014, unknown): “Two meta-analyses of correlational and experimental studies 11,12 have reported small to moderate effect sizes for the relationship between various types of media exposure and female body dissatisfaction, internalization of the thin ideal, and disturbed eating behaviors and beliefs.”
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): “It is important to note that body dissatisfaction, like most psychological issues, is viewed as multidetermined and multidimensional, and few researchers consider a single risk factor in a theoretical vacuum (Levine & Murnen, 2009; Striegel-Moore & Bulik, 2007).”
Who is The Fairest One of All? How Evolution Guides Peer and Media Influences on Female Body Dissatisfaction (2011, background): “2004; Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997; Levine & Murnen, 2009; Thompson & Stice, 2001).”
Influence of Mass Media on Body Image and Eating Disordered Attitudes and Behaviors in Females: A Review of Effects and Processes (2010, methodology): “Literature on the nature of media literacy and on its effects has recently been reviewed in detail elsewhere (see, e.g., Levine, 2009; Levine & Murnen, 2009; Levine & Smolak, 2006, ch. 13).”
How do "Body Perfect" Ideals In tHe MedIa Have a negatIve IMPact on Body IMage and BeHavIors? factors and Processes related to self and IdentIty (2009, unknown): “This is explicitly done in the opening article, which provides a narrative, up-to-date review of this burgeoning research area (Levine & Murnen, 2009, this issue).”
The impact of online social networking on adolescent psychological well-being (WB): a population-level analysis of Korean school-aged children (2017, background): “Media exposure is also found to be associated with such undesirable outcomes as negative self-perception (Roberts & Good, 2010; Tiggemann, 2006), eating disorder (Levine & Murnen, 2009) and substance abuse (Engels et al., 2009).”
The Internet and Adolescent Girls’ Weight Satisfaction and Drive for Thinness (2010, background): “This result parallels and extends those previously found for more traditional forms of media, in particular, magazines and specific genres of television (Grabe et al. 2008; Levine and Murnen 2009).”
The Relationship Between Body Image Concerns, Eating Disorders and Internet Use, Part I: A Review of Empirical Support (2016, background): “Research examining the role of media in the etiology of body image and eating concerns has highlighted a number of areas for consideration when evaluating support for this theory including: (1) the presence of appearance-related content; (2) qualitative reports of the association between exposure to”
“If You’re Fat, Then I’m Humongous!” (2011, background): “Peer-generated fat talk may play a role similar to media exposure by increasing awareness of and enforcing the thin body ideal (Grabe, Ward, & Hyde, 2008; Groesz, Levine, & Murnen, 2002; Levine & Murnen, 2009).”