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I conducted a survey among my peers on a social media account called Instagram, and I asked the question, “Have you ever felt self-conscious about your appearance?” Also, I conducted a questionnaire among people who are enrolled in Amory High School. Both surveys were given to male and female teenagers.
The Questionnaire A questionnaire investigating teenagers’ opinions on body image was dispersed throughout the school. The teenagers answered the eight questions on the questionnaire and an anonymous poll was taken with the results. The first question asked if the participant is male or female. The next question asked how important appearance is to the teenager. The third is the same question that was used on the Instagram poll, …show more content…
In the article, “Body Image and the Media,” Katherine Walker explains the definition of body image by saying, “body image refers to people’s judgement about their own bodies. It is formed as people compare themselves to other” (Walker 1). Walker also explained the influence social media has on teenagers’ body image issues by saying, “Because people are exposed to countless media images, media images become the basis for some of these comparisons. When people’s comparisons tell them that their bodies are substandard, they can become depressed, suffer from low self-esteem, or develop eating” (Walker 1). Walker states what most people will not except: that the media is a main issue for teenagers’ body image issues. Teenagers go through the media and see someone they know or a celebrity and will look at them and wish that they looked like that person or that group of people. One author who truly understands the struggle teenagers go through is Charlie Dodge. She is a teenager author who wrote an article called “’Thinspo’ Blogs and the Darker Side of Teen Social Media” (Dodge 1). In the article, she wrote all about the emotions teenagers feel when it comes to body image. She says, “It’s hard to stay confident when nearly every main female character on TV and in movies is thin, and the chubby characters are relegated to being comic relief, or just nonexistent in the plot” (Dodge 1). Thinking back, this statement is very accurate. It is hard to think of very many movies or TV show without a very thin main character. These two authors “hit the nail on the head” when it came to explaining about body image issues and the
Sample
I conducted a survey among my peers on a social media account called Instagram, and I asked the question, “Have you ever felt self-conscious about your appearance?” Also, I conducted a questionnaire among people who are enrolled in Amory High School. Both surveys were given to male and female teenagers.
The Questionnaire A questionnaire investigating teenagers’ opinions on body image was dispersed throughout the school. The teenagers answered the eight questions on the questionnaire and an anonymous poll was taken with the results. The first question asked if the participant is male or female. The next question asked how important appearance is to the teenager. The third is the same question that was used on the Instagram poll, …show more content…
In the article, “Body Image and the Media,” Katherine Walker explains the definition of body image by saying, “body image refers to people’s judgement about their own bodies. It is formed as people compare themselves to other” (Walker 1). Walker also explained the influence social media has on teenagers’ body image issues by saying, “Because people are exposed to countless media images, media images become the basis for some of these comparisons. When people’s comparisons tell them that their bodies are substandard, they can become depressed, suffer from low self-esteem, or develop eating” (Walker 1). Walker states what most people will not except: that the media is a main issue for teenagers’ body image issues. Teenagers go through the media and see someone they know or a celebrity and will look at them and wish that they looked like that person or that group of people. One author who truly understands the struggle teenagers go through is Charlie Dodge. She is a teenager author who wrote an article called “’Thinspo’ Blogs and the Darker Side of Teen Social Media” (Dodge 1). In the article, she wrote all about the emotions teenagers feel when it comes to body image. She says, “It’s hard to stay confident when nearly every main female character on TV and in movies is thin, and the chubby characters are relegated to being comic relief, or just nonexistent in the plot” (Dodge 1). Thinking back, this statement is very accurate. It is hard to think of very many movies or TV show without a very thin main character. These two authors “hit the nail on the head” when it came to explaining about body image issues and the