The Influence of Television and Film Viewing on Midlife Women's Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Food Choice

Hefner, Veronica; Woodward, Kelly; Figge, Laura; Bevan, Jennifer L.; Santora, Nicole; Baloch, Sabeen

doi:10.1080/15213269.2013.838903

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“…Studies that delivered interventions in classroom settings or where participants were not screened for having a negative body image were considered nonselected. Interventions were divided into those that targeted participants at childhood (12 years and younger), adolescence (13 to 17 years), as well as early (18 to 29 years), middle (30 to 64 years), and late (65 years and older) adulthood [ 4 , 8 , 69 , 70 ]. Gender was coded as the percentage of female participants in the sample.…”

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A Meta-Analytic Review of Stand-Alone Interventions to Improve Body Image

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ObjectiveNumerous stand-alone interventions to improve body image have been developed. The present review used meta-analysis to estimate the effectiveness of such interventions, and to identify the specific change techniques that lead to improvement in body image.MethodsThe inclusion criteria were that (a) the intervention was stand-alone (i.e., solely focused on improving body image), (b) a control group was used, (c) participants were randomly assigned to conditions, and (d) at least one pretest and one posttest measure of body image was taken. Effect sizes were meta-analysed and moderator analyses were conducted. A taxonomy of 48 change techniques used in interventions targeted at body image was developed; all interventions were coded using this taxonomy.ResultsThe literature search identified 62 tests of interventions (N = 3,846). Interventions produced a small-to-medium improvement in body image (d + = 0.38), a small-to-medium reduction in beauty ideal internalisation (d + = -0.37), and a large reduction in social comparison tendencies (d + = -0.72). However, the effect size for body image was inflated by bias both within and across studies, and was reliable but of small magnitude once corrections for bias were applied. Effect sizes for the other outcomes were no longer reliable once corrections for bias were applied. Several features of the sample, intervention, and methodology moderated intervention effects. Twelve change techniques were associated with improvements in body image, and three techniques were contra-indicated.ConclusionsThe findings show that interventions engender only small improvements in body image, and underline the need for large-scale, high-quality trials in this area. The review identifies effective techniques that could be deployed in future interventions.

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A Meta-Analytic Review of Stand-Alone Interventions to Improve Body Image

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“…Extensive research supports this, with exposure to visual mass media depicting idealised bodies being associated with body image disturbance in both experimental and correlational studies [ 9 ]. 1 Although most frequently investigated in adolescent girls and young women, similar relationships are also seen in the midlife stage; viewing of media featuring “ageing beauties” (who have the body shape and size of younger women) predicted disordered eating, greater discrepancy between actual and desired body size, and stricter food choices in women aged 30–65 [ 15 ]. This is not to say that images are passively and uncritically received [ 11 ].…”

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Altered Images: Understanding the Influence of Unrealistic Images and Beauty Aspirations

MacCallum

Widdows

2016

Health Care Anal

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In this paper we consider the impact of digitally altered images on individuals’ body satisfaction and beauty aspirations. Drawing on current psychological literature we consider interventions designed to increase knowledge about the ubiquity and unreality of digital images and, in the form of labelling, provide information to the consumer. Such interventions are intended to address the negative consequences of unrealistic beauty ideals. However, contrary to expectations, such initiatives may not be effective, especially in the long-term, and may even be counter-productive. We seek to understand this phenomenon of our continued aspiration for beauty ideals we know to be unreal and even impossible. We draw on our respective disciplines to offer psychological and philosophical accounts for why this might be. We conclude that beauty ideals are deeply embedded in our aspirations, practices, and in our constructions of ourselves. Given this, it is not surprising that simply increasing knowledge, or providing information, will be insufficient to challenge them.

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“…The mass media, parents, and peers together create body dissatisfaction by providing models for comparison (Galli, Reel, Petrie, Greenleaf, & Carter, 2011;Grabe et al, 2008;Hefner et al, 2014). For example, images in mass media and the opin ions of girlfriends and peers negatively influence men's body images (Ryan & Morrison, 2009), and after watching television with thin woman actors or engaging in "thin talk" with friends, women often feel pressured to match thin body standards and are less happy with their own appearance (Hefner et al, 2014;Stice et al, 2002). Thus, selfapproval is shaped by the opinions of what significant others consider an "ideal" physique, although the influ ence of mass media is also important (Soulierre & Blair, 2006).…”

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“…Moreover, women had stringent standards for beauty and were less content with their own physical appearance and attractiveness after viewing ads with attractive models (Richins, 1991). Women also were more selfcritical of their bodies after watching their favorite womencentered television shows (Hefner et al, 2014).…”

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Does Fitness Priming Influence Self- and Other-Judgements of Personal and Physical Characteristics?

Burris¹,

Brownlow²,

Lins³

2016

PsiChiJournal

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As I write these lines, Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research has fully transitioned to the editorial stew ardship of Dr. Debi Brannan. It is a bittersweet time; I treasured deeply the tasks of editing the Psi Chi Journal. For nearly 5 years, I benefitted from reading cuttingedge research in broad topics across psy chology. I was inspired by the knowledge that most of the authors were upandcoming researchers whose sense of efficacy could be nurtured through a positive publication experience. I reveled in the beauty of watching undergraduate and graduate researchers shine, faculty mentors nurture our next generation of researchers, and colleagues support Psi Chi Journal authors in putting forth the best possible work. I retain a sense of awe at watching a community of scholars seamlessly collaborate for the greater good of science and psychology. I step down with a sense of having gained much more than I contributed. This editorial summarizes the road we-the editorial team-traveled during my years as editor of this fine Journal. The Journal edito rial team accomplishments since November of 2011 and until July of 2016 included advances in both structure and function of the Journal. Psi Chi Journal's notable changes in the 2011-16 period include a name change, expansion of author submissions, a shift from paper to online submis sions, and indexing in EBSCO Academic Search Complete and PsycINFO. We also created a Google Scholar profile. These changes were intended to increase the visibility, and thus impact, of Psi Chi Journal in the field. Increasing author submissions would allow us to increase the selectivity of pub lished works. Increased visibility through indexing increases the probability of citation. Google Scholar allowed us to track the impact of specific articles and to calculate an h index for the Journal. At the time of this printing, the h index for the Journal was WINTER 2016 PSI CHI JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH

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The Influence of Television and Film Viewing on Midlife Women's Body Image, Disordered Eating, and Food Choice

Cited by 19 publications

References 41 publications

A Meta-Analytic Review of Stand-Alone Interventions to Improve Body Image

A Meta-Analytic Review of Stand-Alone Interventions to Improve Body Image

Altered Images: Understanding the Influence of Unrealistic Images and Beauty Aspirations

Does Fitness Priming Influence Self- and Other-Judgements of Personal and Physical Characteristics?

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