For Your Health? The Relationship Between Magazine Reading and Adolescents' Body Image and Eating Disturbances

By Renée A. Botta. 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful (2010, background): “The power of the media over youth can also be seen in the research of Botta ( 2003 ), who demonstrated that viewing fashion magazines among adolescent girls predicted body dissatisfaction.”
Media images of men: Trends and consequences of body conceptualization. (2007, background): “Correlational studies show that there is a positive relationship between viewing media ideals and body dissatisfaction (e.g., Botta, 2003; Morrison, Morrison, & Hopkins, 2003; Morry & Staska, 2001).”
COGNITIVE RESPONSES TO IDEALIZED MEDIA IMAGES OF WOMEN: THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIAL COMPARISON AND CRITICAL PROCESSING TO BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCE IN COLLEGE WOMEN (2005, result): “In a similar study exploring exposure to magazine rather than television images (Botta, 2003), results indicated that critical body image processing was related to increases in eating disordered behaviors and drive for thinness and decreases in body satisfaction.”
The Impact of Sexually Objectifying Media Exposure on Negative Body Emotions and Sexual Self-Perceptions: Investigating the Mediating Role of Body Self-Consciousness (2007, background): “, Anderson & DiDomenico, 1992), the media are showing signs of “gender equity” in emphasizing the importance of appearance (Botta, 2003).”
Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Male Collegiate Athletes (2008, background): “Linking these sociocultural changes to disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, Botta (2003) found that reading health and fitness, but not fashion or sport, magazines was associated with increased concern with muscularity (e.”
Exposure to Sexually Objectifying Media and Body Self-Perceptions among College Women: An Examination of the Selective Exposure Hypothesis and the Role of Moderating Variables (2006, background): “Magazine reading has been a consistent predictor of body dissatisfaction ( Botta, 2003; Harrison & Cantor, 1997; Levine, Smolack, & Hayden, 1994) and eating disorder symptomatology (Botta, 2003; Harrison, 2000; Levine et al., 1994).”
Meta-Analyses of the Effects of Media Images on Men's Body-image Concerns (2008, background): “These negative behaviors may include increased steroid usage (Blovin & Goldfield, 1995), increased food supplement intake (McCabe & Ricciardelli, 2003), and an in- 282 BARLETT ET AL. creased probability to develop an eating disorder, such as bulimia or anorexia nervosa (Botta, 2003).”
Average Joes: Men's relationships with media, real bodies, and sexuality (2006, background): “Such connections have been demonstrated frequently among women and girls, such that frequent exposure to TV and magazines in general (Botta, 2003; Harrison, 2000, 2001; Harrison & Cantor, 1997) and to specific genres and subtypes, such as music videos and soap operas (Borzekowski, Robinson, &…”
The Effect of Thin Ideal Media Images on Women’s Self-Objectification, Mood, and Body Image (2008, background): “For example, viewing fashion magazines has been found to predict body dissatisfaction (Harrison and Cantor 1997; Botta 2003), drive for thinness (Harrison and Cantor 1997), and eating disorder symptomology (Stice and Shaw 1994; Harrison 2000).”