Exposure to thin ideal media images produces upward social comparison that then results in body dissatisfaction. (Tiggemann 2004) Social comparison theory has great deal to why we are so affected by the media. We see a picture online of a pretty skinny successful person we are bound to evaluate the image and compare ourselves after all, we are our own biggest critics. Fitness on Instagram is huge and I find that we are constantly finding ourselves saving images of “ideal fit people” in a sense to give us motivation. We are saving those in hopes that our bodies will eventually look like that if we work hard enough. About 60.71% out fifty six of my participants (both men and women) admitted that they compare themselves.
In a scholarly article written J. Robyn Goodman talked about the effects of social comparison and its influence body dissatisfaction. The study that was tested was “a model and found that media pressure and peers’ dieting talk and behaviors were the greatest influences on thinness awareness, thinness internalization, and social comparison, which in turn influenced body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and eating disordered behaviors. (Goodman, 2005) …show more content…
Robyn. 2005) Also, Goodman discovered in her article that the inverse relation between body dissatisfaction and eating disordered behaviors. This relation seems to indicate, at least with this group, that body dissatisfaction does not drive an eating disorder; it is drive for thinness. (Goodman, J. Robyn. 2005). Everything ended up fell into the category that women only wanted to strive for thinness because that is what they understand from the
In a scholarly article written J. Robyn Goodman talked about the effects of social comparison and its influence body dissatisfaction. The study that was tested was “a model and found that media pressure and peers’ dieting talk and behaviors were the greatest influences on thinness awareness, thinness internalization, and social comparison, which in turn influenced body dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and eating disordered behaviors. (Goodman, 2005) …show more content…
Robyn. 2005) Also, Goodman discovered in her article that the inverse relation between body dissatisfaction and eating disordered behaviors. This relation seems to indicate, at least with this group, that body dissatisfaction does not drive an eating disorder; it is drive for thinness. (Goodman, J. Robyn. 2005). Everything ended up fell into the category that women only wanted to strive for thinness because that is what they understand from the