Methods
Participants
This study will draw from a sample size consisting of both college men and women between the ages of 18-26 attending the University of Northern Iowa. The grade level distribution was not determined as a necessary component to take into account. Participants will be voluntarily selected based on the analysis of the extremity of body dissatisfaction and indication of symptoms of muscle dysmorphia. Based on these results, students will be assigned to four different classified groups; Males with low and high levels of body dissatisfaction and females with low and high levels of body dissatisfaction. In this sense, research is being received without interference of perspective. The ethnicity of persons involved are not limited to, but predicted …show more content…
The groups will be determined with a questionnaire prior to the study. The survey will ask participants in the Modified Muscle Dysmorphia Scale. This Likert-type scale assesses an “individual’s cognitive and behavioral preoccupation with muscularity and their distress about a perceived lack of muscularity” (Readdy 2001). Based on these results, participants will be divided into their extremes for further examination.
Dependent Variable
The Role of Media. Media will be defined as television, social media sources, and magazines. A list of 20 TV shows, social media applications, and popular magazines will be presented to participants. Participants will be asked to designate each item they have been in contact with in the past two weeks. In addition, individuals will participate in the 30-item Sociocultural Attitudes towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ-3) (Thompson et al. 2004) to determine the internalization of media ideals and the societal pressure placed as a
Participants
This study will draw from a sample size consisting of both college men and women between the ages of 18-26 attending the University of Northern Iowa. The grade level distribution was not determined as a necessary component to take into account. Participants will be voluntarily selected based on the analysis of the extremity of body dissatisfaction and indication of symptoms of muscle dysmorphia. Based on these results, students will be assigned to four different classified groups; Males with low and high levels of body dissatisfaction and females with low and high levels of body dissatisfaction. In this sense, research is being received without interference of perspective. The ethnicity of persons involved are not limited to, but predicted …show more content…
The groups will be determined with a questionnaire prior to the study. The survey will ask participants in the Modified Muscle Dysmorphia Scale. This Likert-type scale assesses an “individual’s cognitive and behavioral preoccupation with muscularity and their distress about a perceived lack of muscularity” (Readdy 2001). Based on these results, participants will be divided into their extremes for further examination.
Dependent Variable
The Role of Media. Media will be defined as television, social media sources, and magazines. A list of 20 TV shows, social media applications, and popular magazines will be presented to participants. Participants will be asked to designate each item they have been in contact with in the past two weeks. In addition, individuals will participate in the 30-item Sociocultural Attitudes towards Appearance Questionnaire (SATAQ-3) (Thompson et al. 2004) to determine the internalization of media ideals and the societal pressure placed as a