پررنگ و زیبا. تاثیر اندازه بدن مدل های رسانه ها تلویزیونی بر روی نارضایتی از بدن و مصرف مواد غذایی واقعی

In the fall of 2006 - Spanish fashion models with BMI scores below 18 were banned from the catwalk of the famous Madrid Fashion Week - Madrid's local government stated they wanted to set a more positive - healthy image of beauty for teenagers to endorse - because fashion functions as a mirror and many teenagers imitate what they see on the catwalk - In addition - the Italian fashion industry and the government followed - by formulating a voluntary code of conduct which aimed to keep unhealthy models from the catwalk - Italy's Youth and Sports minister said that fashion's obsession with slimness created an extreme ideal (Duff - BBC News - 2006) - These new developments are in contrast with the increasing thinness of fashion models that can be seen in the last decades (Sypeck - Gray - & Ahrens - 2004) - In our society - the media provides women with depictions of thin models in magazines and on television - and underlines that thinness is linked to happiness and health - Most of the time - the thin media models women are exposed to are very unrealistic - Levine and Smolak (1996) found that fashion models are thinner than 98% of American women - Many scholars have accordingly suggested that this unrealistic media portrayal of women can be held partly responsible for the development and maintenance of body-image disturbances and eating pathologies (e - g - - Harrison & Cantor - 1997 - Levine & Smolak - 1996 - Stice - Schupak-Neuberg - Shaw - & Stein - 1994 - Thompson - Heinberg - Altabe - & Tantleff-Dunn - 1999) - The question arises what would happen when women are exposed to less thin models - Would these more realistic images reduce the occurrence of a negative own body image? Would they even prevent any negative perceptions from developing? In the present study we examined the effects of exposure to televised images of women - both thin and more average-sized - on body dissatisfaction and food intake in young women -