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Idealized Female Beauty, Social Comparisons, and Awareness Intervention Material

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Idealized Female Beauty, Social Comparisons, and Awareness Intervention Material

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People are not aware that a lot of the images that define the beauty standard are fabricated or manipulated into looking "better."

In turn they make themselves feel bad for not achieving that physical appearance.

Insecurities change how people view themselves, but can also change relationships, social interactions, and cause depression and anxiety.

Women who did not see the awareness video that claimed that most pictures of models are edited found themselves comparing themselves more than those who did see the video.

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MASS MEDIA’S PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIO-CULTURAL ATTITUDES TO THE BODY AND SOCIAL APPEARANCE ANXIETY

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MASS MEDIA’S PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIO-CULTURAL ATTITUDES TO THE BODY AND SOCIAL APPEARANCE ANXIETY

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Vantanian et al. (2015) conducted a study to investigate the effect of Facebook use on women's mood and body image. Those who spent more time viewing body-related images had a more negative mood than people in the control group.

Consumption culture has also made it possible to indulge in reshaping surgeries or beauty products like makeup to make people look like the standard.

Although mass media has allowed for a connection between several cultures, the effects of those can be harmful. This emergence of an interconnected world leads to a dominant beauty standard in the large part of society.

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Beauty standards are harming our society. People obsess over their looks and choose appearance over authenticity and personality. My themes explain the order of what happens because of beauty standards, focusing on how over exposure can lead to a lowered self esteem and other related issues. To mitigate this issue, it would be important to show authenticity on media, and show that the expection isn't always reality, promoting beauty beyond just appearance.

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Mass media often leads to dissatisfaction with one's appearance by promoting fabricated images that set unachievable beauty standards. As a result, individuals feel the need to change their appearance, spending money on bodily procedures and beauty products for validation. It creates a cycle of comparison, insecurity, and impact of mood and self esteem.

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The challenging effects of beauty standards go further for some, leading to health-threatening actions. 

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The challenging effects of beauty standards go further for some, leading to health-threatening actions. 

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In response to these unrealistic beauty standards, individuals struggle with feelings of inadequacy, leading to dissatisfaction with oneself and self-consciousness. 

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In response to these unrealistic beauty standards, individuals struggle with feelings of inadequacy, leading to dissatisfaction with oneself and self-consciousness. 

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The focus on appearance and weight encourages unhealthy practices where people value beauty over their well-being. The extreme practices are also praised and popular among media, encouraging eating disorders in order to look a certain way.

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Beauty standards are taken so seriously and they impact a large number of people. Individuals tear themselves apart because they aren't what society wants them to be. It alters self-perception and can lead to negative emotions and harm ones mental health.

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Eating disorders are on the rise as beauty standards are constantly changing. Not only are they on the rise, but they are also beginning to get normalized. Media creates a cycle of creating new beauty standards and spreading their negative effects.

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Media and other modes of socialization has encouraged unattainable beauty standards. Most pictures that define the beauty standards are often fabricated or manipulated, causing people to obsess over their flaws and strive to look a certain way.

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Both sources explain that standards can affect anybody, regardless of age and gender. Standards surround everyone, even starting from a young age. Our society is consumed with the idea of standards, obsessing over the fact that people can't fit the manipulated standards. For some, this can lead to mental health issues, while for men, it is common to avoid help in order to fit the standard.

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Societal pressures around appearance, especially beauty standards and masculinity, can have a significant impact on mental health and self-esteem. Some norms lead to feelings of inadequacy, depression, and appearance anxiety.

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In today's media-driven society, authenticity is overlooked by appearance. By analyzing both of these sources, it is evident that many tools facilitate this. From photo editing to beauty filters, they all promote the idea of a new distorted and unachievable beauty standard for society to obsess over.

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In what ways do beauty standards cause mental health issues and eating disorders?

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Body Perceptions and Psychological Well-Being: A Review of the Impact of Social Media and Physical Measurements on Self-Esteem and Mental Health with a Focus on Body Image Satisfaction and Its Relationship with Cultural and Gender Factors

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Body Perceptions and Psychological Well-Being: A Review of the Impact of Social Media and Physical Measurements on Self-Esteem and Mental Health with a Focus on Body Image Satisfaction and Its Relationship with Cultural and Gender Factors

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The importance of physical measurements are indicators of worth such as good health. This creates a need to fit the idealized body measurements in order to accommodate the worth.

Photo editing is a common tool used by social media users that contributes to the uprising of fabricated images that are then promoted to be the new “beauty standard."

Social media promotes thinness for women and muscularity for men, creating a distorted standard of what is wanted for others.

The social comparison theory suggests that individuals evaluate their own looks by comparing themselves to other people or images. Media plays a big role in this as it is home to distorted images known as the beauty standard.

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Dimensions of Masculine Norms, Depression, and Mental Health Service Utilization: Results From a Prospective Cohort Study Among Emerging Adult Men in the United States

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Dimensions of Masculine Norms, Depression, and Mental Health Service Utilization: Results From a Prospective Cohort Study Among Emerging Adult Men in the United States

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Men feel pressured to meet the norm of "protection, strength, and masculinity."

Research links masculine norms with poor mental health and behavior with cross-sectional studies.

Men oftentimes avoid professional treatment in order to meet the standard of toughness

Drugs and other distractors are used to keep up the standard as data showed through use of several drugs and alcohol.

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Online violence: Not beautiful enough... not thin enough.
Anorectic testimonials in the web

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Online violence: Not beautiful enough... not thin enough.
Anorectic testimonials in the web

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In public blogs, it's common to come across diet tips, ways to make yourself throw up, “thinspiration” including celebrities or models who may suffer from eating disorders or have died from them, and sharing their own goal weights, BMI, or other measurements regarding the body.

The goal is to always be thinner in order to fit the standard and be socially accepted, but by doing that, people destroy their own health.

There are also cases of talk about self-harm, bulimia, anorexia, and other very dangerous ways to lose weight or harm oneself.

Most of these blogs were made by people ages ranging from 13-19.

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The Influence of Social Media on Perception of Body Image and Beauty Standards on Young People

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The Influence of Social Media on Perception of Body Image and Beauty Standards on Young People

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The easy access to the internet has increased the exposure to manipulated images and narratives that depict distorted body ideals.

American youth ages 13-18 spend an average of over 7 hours per day engaging with several media forms including TV, social media, games, and more.

Media exposure can cause people to internalize social standards for thinness and beauty, which contributes to body dysmorphia.

Beauty filters and technological ways of improving body shape create a divide between reality and digital beauty.

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Standards of physical beauty and mental health in children and young people in the information revolution

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Standards of physical beauty and mental health in children and young people in the information revolution

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In this study, there were 4 dolls that fit the beauty standard where the other was a china doll who had a fuller body. Of the 23 cases, the children always chose the dolls that fit the standard first. The children made fun of the china doll and expressed their disapproval of fuller bodies.

Social factors play an important role in the formation of unhealthy standards of attractiveness among children. The idea of perfectionism starts at a young age where they obsess over their flaws.

Perfectionism is a risk factor for emotional maladaptation in the form of depression or anxiety.

There are a number of websites that share information on extreme diets, fat burners, drugs, and starvation journals that resemble slow suicide in aim of losing weight to fit the beauty standard.

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Effects of Self-Objectification on Self-Reported Eating Pathology and Depression

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Effects of Self-Objectification on Self-Reported Eating Pathology and Depression

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Self objectification is when someone views themselves as an object or someone who is just being viewed and used for their body.

Partaking in unhealthy diets at a young age continues to get more severe as time goes on.

The idea of not eating enough to lose weight is commonly spread which can encourage eating disorders, especially among youth.

People feel the need to change themselves, which results in extreme practices.

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The uncertainty that beauty standards bring to oneself often leads to more extreme practices, such as eating disorders.

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The uncertainty that beauty standards bring to oneself often leads to more extreme practices, such as eating disorders.

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Unattainable beauty standards lead to psychological effects as individuals feel pressured to meet unrealistic ideals. 

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Unattainable beauty standards lead to psychological effects as individuals feel pressured to meet unrealistic ideals. 

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Context + Introduction + Focus (Problem Statement)

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Context + Introduction + Focus (Problem Statement)

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Overtime, beauty standards have emerged to be out of reach and unrealistic. In many countries, the beauty standard often promotes a thinner body with Western features. This is emphasized from a young age. In Kholmogorova's study (2017), it is evident that the toys that children play with, are a constant reminder reminder of these beauty standards, subtly giving off the idea that people who do not look this way are unattractive or not enough. They are made to be "pretty" and socially accepted. As a result, people who feel that they don't fit the standard try to change themselves. According to Register Et al. (2015), people who are often exposed to idealized images that are unattainable, draw attention to intractable flaws in appearance, which results in comparison, shame, and mood disturbance. For others, the mood disturbance could be much more significant, leading to dangerous eating disorders, mental health disorders, and more. Overtime, the numbers of mental health disorders and eating disorders have gone up to dangerously high numbers, affecting several age ranges, and especially our youth. Due to these societal pressures, it can shape ones identity and take part in other widespread issues like body dysmorphia. It highlights the urgency for a more inclusive and diverse representation of beauty across the globe.

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Media and other factors contribute to the overexposure to unattainable beauty standards.

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Media and other factors contribute to the overexposure to unattainable beauty standards.