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Title: | The Media’s Impact on Children’s Self-Esteem and Body Image |
Authors: | Fink, Adina |
Keywords: | Body image in children Body image in adolescence Human body in popular culture |
Issue Date: | 25-Apr-2017 |
Publisher: | Stern College for Women |
Abstract: | This paper explores how the media negatively affects children ages 5-17, the extent of the media’s impact, and organizations working to combat the media’s negative influence. Media, which includes celebrities and fashion models, video games, toys, television, movies, magazines, and advertisements, as well as clothing stores and the fashion industry, promotes the thin ideal. The media tends to only promote thin people as attractive, and the messages of the media’s content also promote thinness. This has been proven to influence children’s body image and self-esteem levels. This has far-reaching implications—media exposure increases body dissatisfaction and lowers self-esteem, and can lead to even more serious problems including anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and eating disorders. Some nonprofit organizations, celebrities, and corporations are working to combat the media’s negative messages, but so far the pervasive message of the thin ideal continues to dominate. |
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Appears in Collections: | S. Daniel Abraham Honors Student Theses |
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