Media Effects on Body Image: Examining Media Exposure in ...

41. American Communication Journal 2012 SPRING (Volume 14, Issue 2). _____. Media Effects on Body Image: Examining Media Exposure in the Broader Context of Internal and Other Social Factors Kristen E. Van Vonderen, University of Central Florida William Kinnally, University of Central Florida ABSTRACT. This study attempts to examine the connection between Media use and body dissatisfaction by juxtaposing the Media with the internalfactor of self-esteem and other social factors such as peer and parental attitudes. A sample of 285 female undergraduates completed measures of Media Exposure , comparisons with Media figures, self-esteem, parental and peer attitudes toward body shape, and peer comparisons, as well as internalization of the thin-ideal and body dissatisfaction measures. Overall, comparison to Media figures was associated with internalization of the thin ideal butnot as strongly as peer attitudes and self-esteem.

43 fashion magazines and television programs. Thin-ideal media promote the idea that thinness is an advantageous attribute and ascribe the attribute to the most “beautiful, desirable, and successful

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