Teenagers And Body Image Essay

I believe that teenagers have a big problem with their body image, teenagers look at magazines and the media and see Photoshop women and men. This is a social problem because of how teenagers are becoming sick with having the idea that they need to be sex skinny or manly with big broad muscles. Teenagers today look at media images all the time, with commercials, magazines, billboards and models. These pictures make teenagers with different types of bodies feel discouraged about themselves and they need to find a way to change their bodies to look like these models even when these models were photo shopped to look skinnier and prettier. These pictures are misleading to every girl and boy today, no one has to be perfect, but the media wants everyone to be. Body image is the way you see yourself and imagine how you look, a lot of teenagers have negative body image develops when they feels about their body does that have not measured up to family, social, or media ideals. Many teenagers feel as if they don’t measure up to the ideas placed on them through the …show more content…
“The respondents for Study 1 (423 boys and 377 girls) completed the Body Image and Body Change Inventory (L. A. Ricciardelli & M. P. McCabe, 2002) and the Perceived Sociocultural Influences on Body Image and Body Change Questionnaire” (M. P. McCabe & L. A. Ricciardelli, 2001b). “In Study 2, the authors examined the influence of the same sociocultural variables, as well as negative affect and puberty on body image and body-change strategies among a second group of 199 boys and 267 girls” (L. A. Ricciardelli & M. P. McCabe, 2002). In this study puberty played a bigger role for these