Annotated Bibliography Of Adolescent Research
HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College
Higher Diploma Program
First Semester 2015-16 English for Academic and Professional Purposes (Part II) Assignment 1: Annotated Bibliography "Factors affecting the perception of beauty among young adults in Hong Kong”
To: Mr. Stephen Leung From: Chow Oi Tung Sharon Class: CC-88-363-00 (316) Submission Date: 20 OCT 2015
Romo, L., Mireles-Rios, R., & Hurtado, A. (2015). Cultural, Media, and Peer Influences on Body Beauty Perceptions of Mexican American Adolescent Girls. Journal of Adolescent Research. doi:10.1177/0743558415594424
Research by Romo, Mireles-Rios and Hurtado (2015) found that although one of the participants does not take her friends feedback as …show more content…
Newman et al. (2006) also support that the comparison of physical appearance affects one’s body image. Furthermore, peer criticism also negatively affects adolescent girl’s satisfaction of their bodies, that is the more an adolescent receive teasing about her figure, the lower the adolescent satisfy with her body. Although it shows that peer criticism greatly affect one’s body satisfaction, result show that media pressure has a more prejudicial impact upon one’s body satisfaction comparing to peer teasing. While these two factors create a strong bond in leading adolescent girls to imitate slim images that shown in the …show more content…
The reason could be people tend to social with others who have similar body condition with themselves. Furthermore, parties without obese friends would discuss more about fasting and appearance as teenage girls might be emotional to have talk about the above topics with their obese friends. Moreover, having more discussion on these helps to lower BMI index and create a higher satisfaction on bodies. In addition, internalization and comparison often appears when parties discussing topics about appearance and fasting, also when teasing about other’s body. Study also indicates people that believe skinniness and popularity are linked make selections about their appearance based on the comments of their
Higher Diploma Program
First Semester 2015-16 English for Academic and Professional Purposes (Part II) Assignment 1: Annotated Bibliography "Factors affecting the perception of beauty among young adults in Hong Kong”
To: Mr. Stephen Leung From: Chow Oi Tung Sharon Class: CC-88-363-00 (316) Submission Date: 20 OCT 2015
Romo, L., Mireles-Rios, R., & Hurtado, A. (2015). Cultural, Media, and Peer Influences on Body Beauty Perceptions of Mexican American Adolescent Girls. Journal of Adolescent Research. doi:10.1177/0743558415594424
Research by Romo, Mireles-Rios and Hurtado (2015) found that although one of the participants does not take her friends feedback as …show more content…
Newman et al. (2006) also support that the comparison of physical appearance affects one’s body image. Furthermore, peer criticism also negatively affects adolescent girl’s satisfaction of their bodies, that is the more an adolescent receive teasing about her figure, the lower the adolescent satisfy with her body. Although it shows that peer criticism greatly affect one’s body satisfaction, result show that media pressure has a more prejudicial impact upon one’s body satisfaction comparing to peer teasing. While these two factors create a strong bond in leading adolescent girls to imitate slim images that shown in the …show more content…
The reason could be people tend to social with others who have similar body condition with themselves. Furthermore, parties without obese friends would discuss more about fasting and appearance as teenage girls might be emotional to have talk about the above topics with their obese friends. Moreover, having more discussion on these helps to lower BMI index and create a higher satisfaction on bodies. In addition, internalization and comparison often appears when parties discussing topics about appearance and fasting, also when teasing about other’s body. Study also indicates people that believe skinniness and popularity are linked make selections about their appearance based on the comments of their