Eating Disorder Website Research
Running Head: Review and Proposal
Mini Literature Review and Proposal
First Article The first article I read was titled, “Exposure to the Media and Weight Concerns Among Girls” (1999). The purpose of this cross-sectional quantitative research was to review what influence from the media has on girls’ weight distress, control of their weight, their behaviors, and how they perceive body weight and shape. They hypothesized that the rate of recurrence of reading fashion magazines was correlated positively with occurrences of girls dieting and exercising to lose weight because of a magazine article.
A questionnaire was given to 548 female public school students ages 11-18 in a working class suburb in Boston, MA. Body dissatisfaction was being measured on the influence of fashion magazine. When results came back from the questionnaires, it did show that pictures from magazines known as print media did have a powerful impact on weight and shape perception of these girls. Close to half of them even reported wanting to lose weight after viewing the magazine photos. The majority of the school girls showed they were unhappy with their current body weight and size. From this study, it showed that fashion magazines caused this impact which supports the hypothesis. Its main focus was the correlation of print media on beliefs of body weight and shape of young girls and it has shown they are positively associated.
A gap in the study is the fact that causality cannot be concluded. For example, some girls may look at magazines because they think they are fat and want to enforce beliefs while some girls may not even have access to magazines. It also did not include television programs, internet, or any other type of media in the questionnaire which may also lead girls to wan to change their body shape.
Second Article The next article I read was titled, “Viewership of Pro-Eating Disorder Websites: Association with Body
Mini Literature Review and Proposal
First Article The first article I read was titled, “Exposure to the Media and Weight Concerns Among Girls” (1999). The purpose of this cross-sectional quantitative research was to review what influence from the media has on girls’ weight distress, control of their weight, their behaviors, and how they perceive body weight and shape. They hypothesized that the rate of recurrence of reading fashion magazines was correlated positively with occurrences of girls dieting and exercising to lose weight because of a magazine article.
A questionnaire was given to 548 female public school students ages 11-18 in a working class suburb in Boston, MA. Body dissatisfaction was being measured on the influence of fashion magazine. When results came back from the questionnaires, it did show that pictures from magazines known as print media did have a powerful impact on weight and shape perception of these girls. Close to half of them even reported wanting to lose weight after viewing the magazine photos. The majority of the school girls showed they were unhappy with their current body weight and size. From this study, it showed that fashion magazines caused this impact which supports the hypothesis. Its main focus was the correlation of print media on beliefs of body weight and shape of young girls and it has shown they are positively associated.
A gap in the study is the fact that causality cannot be concluded. For example, some girls may look at magazines because they think they are fat and want to enforce beliefs while some girls may not even have access to magazines. It also did not include television programs, internet, or any other type of media in the questionnaire which may also lead girls to wan to change their body shape.
Second Article The next article I read was titled, “Viewership of Pro-Eating Disorder Websites: Association with Body