Body image, eating disorders and the media

Body Image, Eating Disorders, and the Media

10.1542/9781581104103-body ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 521-546

Author(s):

Marjorie J. Hogan ◽

Victor C. Strasburger

Keyword(s):

Eating Disorders ◽

Body Image ◽

The Media

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Principles of care for adolescent girls with eating disorders and body disturbances disorders: lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

V M BEKHTEREV REVIEW OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY ◽

10.31363/2313-7053-2021-57-4-106-112 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 106-112

Author(s):

A. A. Pichikov ◽

Y. V. Popov ◽

Y. A. Yakovleva ◽

T. A. Salomatina

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Eating Disorders ◽

Body Image ◽

Personal Contact ◽

Simultaneous Increase ◽

Outpatient Basis ◽

Prevention And Treatment ◽

Body Image Disorders ◽

The Media ◽

Restrictive Measures

The pandemic of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) has contributed to an increase in problems related to eating behavior and body image in the population. Various risk factors that have become relevant due to changes in the usual lifestyle have significantly affected the frequency of eating disorders in the adolescent population. This necessitated the adapting of new strategies for providing medical care in conditions of limited personal contact.The aim of the work is the methodological substantiation and systematization of modern approaches to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders, body image disorders and risk factors associated with them in adolescents in the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic.Materials and methods. The methodological basis of the work is a comprehensive analysis of modern medical and social approaches and recommendations on the organization of assistance to adolescents with eating disorders and body image disorders, with a description of personal experience of using various interventions on an outpatient basis during the pandemic.Results: Prevention and treatment of eating disorders and body image disorders in adolescents during the pandemic should be aimed at specific risk factors those have proved to be the most relevant in connection with restrictive measures: involvement in body image-related social media content and active use of the media; reduction of physical activity with simultaneous increase in access to food; social isolation and reduction of social support; restriction of access to qualified care. The most reasonable approaches during the pandemic are the approaches focused on the family of a teenager using, if possible, remote forms of assistance.Conclusions: Currently, there are no norms and standards in the organization of assistance to adolescents with eating disorders and body image disorders in the pandemic context. However, the analysis of the implemented approaches aimed at various risk factors of these disorders will allow the use of the most effective preventive and therapeutic practices in the future.

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BODY IMAGE AMONG ADOLESCENTS WITH EATING DISORDERS

Vestnik Universiteta ◽

10.26425/1816-4277-2019-6-198-204 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 198-204

Author(s):

D. Ivanov ◽

A. Khokhrina

Keyword(s):

Eating Disorders ◽

Body Image ◽

Eating Behavior ◽

Psychological Characteristics ◽

Research Results ◽

External Eating ◽

The Media ◽

People’S Attitudes ◽

Experiment Analysis

The features of perception by adolescents of their own appearance as a factor favoring the emergence of eating disorders have been considered. The analysis of literature on psychological characteristics of people’s attitudes to themselves and their bodies has been made. It has been noted, that people’s attitudes to themselves and their bodies can cause eating disorders. The role of the media, which can provoke growing number of eating disorders, has been considered. The experiment, analysis of the research results of features of eating behavior among adolescents, dissatisfied with their own appearance, has been described. It has been shown, that adolescents, unsatisfied with their own appearance, often resort to restrictive and external eating behavior

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Body-cult television advertisement recall among young women suffering from anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa

Saúde e Sociedade ◽

10.1590/s0104-12902020170418 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Alejandro del Moral-Agúndez ◽

Maria-Victoria Carrillo-Durán

Keyword(s):

Eating Disorders ◽

Body Image ◽

Young Women ◽

Television Advertising ◽

Negative Influence ◽

Television Program ◽

Control Group ◽

The Media ◽

And Gender ◽

Cult Television

Abstract Advertising conveys an aesthetic model that seems to have a negative influence on young women. However, it is unclear whether the media are the cause, or only act as a reinforcement of disorders related to body image, such as those associated with eating behavior (anorexia or bulimia). This study measures the influence that advertising (measured by recall scores) during a television program has on women with eating disorders (anorexia or bulimia) compared to healthy women. Experimental study of exploratory nature performed on a sample of young women with eating disorders and a control group. The influence of advertising was estimated by recall scores, obtained after viewing a real television program, which included two commercial breaks containing two kinds of ads: body cult advertising (showing thinness or promoting it) and neutral advertising. Young women with eating disorders better recall advertisements showing thinness and products for weight loss and pay less attention to other types targeted at their age and gender group. Television advertising seems to be more of a reinforcement for these women who are already dissatisfied with their body, rather than a direct cause of their body image disorder.

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Eating Disorders and the Media

10.1542/9781610021883-eating ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 208-227

Author(s):

Marjorie Hogan ◽

Victor C. Strasburger

Keyword(s):

Eating Disorders ◽

Body Image ◽

Disordered Eating ◽

Self Image ◽

Body Ideal ◽

Ideal Body Image ◽

The Media ◽

Ideal Body ◽

Media Research ◽

Body Self

Body self-image is a major concern for teenagers. Pressure to emulate the American body ideal—ultrathin for women, muscular for men—comes from a combination of forces, with teens constructing their ideal body image through messages from family, peers, and the media. But do the media cause eating disorders? As with many aspects of media research, the answer is complicated, and this article discusses ways media may influence body self-image and eating behavior. Given concerns that negative body self-image may contribute to disordered eating, media education presents an opportunity to counter harmful messages and images on large and small screens and in the print media.

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