Xiao Body Image

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Xiao Wang’s research mainly focused on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. He said, he wanted to “explore the potential positive effects resulting from exposure to a variety of media outlets and to provide a mediation analysis on how media exposure shaped individuals’ intentions to perform a target behavior.”(Xiao, W. 2010) Wang talked about how scholars argue that mass media manages information and examples that turn out to be positive attitudes and behaviors. He quoted “. For instance, Carney and Louw’s (2006) qualitative research indicated that physical activity, in addition to dieting, was one of the several strategies that individuals adopted in response to body image exposure. Some of the hypothesis Wang talkes are “For female participants, attitudes toward attractive body image would be predicted by (a) their viewing of popular television shows, (b) their fashion and entertainment magazine reading, and (c) their sports and fitness magazine reading.” (Xiao, W. 2010.)
Media has set off many triggers about how women should look even when they are pregnant. When celebrities post for media outlets they look great and give us the illusion of what a healthy …show more content…

Megan Hopper explained how pregnant women engage in social comparison with pregnant celebrities featured in media outlets such as magazines. They said how “they idolize celebrities during pregnancy and after postpartum”. They argue that the idealistic portrayals can enhance the dissatisfaction pregnant women have for their bodies because their bodies do not measure up to the unrealistic images disseminated (Hopper, K. M. 2014). Pregnant women explain their experiences to be negative due to the fact of change in their body. Pregnant women feel self-conscious due to a heightened sense of public scrutiny. “U.S. media focus a great deal on pregnancy, but mostly with regard to celebrity bodies that present idealistic and unrealistic images of pregnancy (Hopper, K. M.

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