Study 1:
- Volunteered sample of 199 adolescents (ages 14-16) females
- All girls high school
(Survey type research)
BMI: Average: 19.95
- Underweight: 9.1%
- Normal: 85.9%
- Overweight: 3%
- Obese: 2%
- Five Categories: Internet, TV, music videos, magazines, and computer games
- * Use of Physical Appearance Stat and Trait Anxiety Scale PASTAS
- Measures negative effects associated with weight-related body parts on five point Likert scale
- Not Anxious – Extremely Anxious
Results:
Order of media popularity High to Low:
o Internet, TV, music video, computer games, magazines
- Experimental results
- “It is clear from the findings of the present study that amount of media exposure, either overall or by genre, does not directly predict body and appearance dissatisfaction.”
- Only longitudinal research capable of testing that negative body image is developmental with long exposure increasing likelihood of identification of thin ideology.
- Identification with media models correlated with the most with appearance dissatisfaction not amount or type of media
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-011-9964-x