Minding a
Healthy Body: Clarifying Media Roles as Primers in the Rating of Body
Satisfaction in a Variety of Social Categories by Sebastian G in Psychology andPsychotherapy Research Study: Crimson Publishers_Journal of Psychology andPsychotherapy
In current
literature surrounding body image and media, there is an overwhelming sense of
the responsibility of media as a means of skewing expectations of beauty. This
skewing process has been explained by a multitude of theories; however, the
Social Comparison Theory and the Tripartite Model generate an explanation by
both the means and the value of media functioning as a prime in the perception
of body image. However, in contemporary studies, findings challenging this this
responsibility have emerged.
This study
attempts to clarify the immediate role that media plays in the processes which
generate body image satisfaction in individuals. This is done via chi-square
tests for independence on the 360 questionnaire participants responses
regarding their pre-priming body satisfaction, prime category (Overweight, Underweight
and Healthy Eating), post priming body satisfaction and the socially
descriptive categories of participants. These results indicate that there is
observed relationship between media inspired primes and the body satisfaction
rating of participants. When compared toward social categories, only
individuals diagnosed with a Body Image Disorder demonstrate a significant
relationship with priming and changing body satisfaction ratings. The
implications of these findings to existing literature is discussed and
limitations are addressed.
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