For your health? The relationship between magazine reading and adolescents' body image and eating disturbances

Nearly 400 high school and college students from an urban area in the Midwest were surveyed to test the extent to which reading fashion, sports, and health/fitness magazines is related to body image and eating disturbances, including the added dimension of muscularity. Results indicate that magazine...

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Published in:Sex roles 2003-05, Vol.48 (9-10), p.389-399
Main Author: BOTTA, Renée A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Biological and medical sciences
Body Image
College Students
Colleges
Eating behavior disorders
Eating Disorders
High School Students
High schools
Medical sciences
Midwestern States
Miscellaneous
Periodicals
Predictors
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reading
Social Comparison
Students
USA
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Summary:Nearly 400 high school and college students from an urban area in the Midwest were surveyed to test the extent to which reading fashion, sports, and health/fitness magazines is related to body image and eating disturbances, including the added dimension of muscularity. Results indicate that magazine reading, social comparisons, and critical body image processing are important predictors of body image and eating disturbances for adolescent boys and girls. (Original abstract - amended)
ISSN:0360-0025
1573-2762
DOI:10.1023/A:1023570326812