The Study of Body Image from Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Body image is a psychological and personal representation of one’s own physique that includes someone who analyzes one’s body from head to toe. An image of one’s self can be implemented by both positive and negative thoughts of how people portray themselves. Generally, people struggle with their own physique because they want to live up to their societies standards. Because of this issue, both men and women torture their bodies to look like the image that they believe that the society will accept. An individual’s body image is not only influenced from society’s point of view, but one’s own self-esteem. Self- esteem determines how an individual feels about his or herself and can insinuate every quality of existence. While humanity plays a significant role on a person’s body image, it will constantly …show more content…
Keeping a certain image to fit in has to be the toughest situation a woman can go through. I knew that body image through media had a big influence on women, but I did not think it was to that extreme for women to become depressed and start to hurt their bodies. It is sad to see how these women cannot feel comfortable in their own skin because of all the proactive advertisements that are presented in the world. Also with menopause, every woman is going to go through it, so they should not feel ashamed about it because that is just how our body works. Lastly, with the diversity aspect, different cultures should have their own beliefs on how they view body image and should not live up to any norm that they are not comfortable with. The most challenging portion of this paper was gathering up all of the research. This essay opened my eyes to different ways I can approach and research up coming papers for the
Body image is a psychological and personal representation of one’s own physique that includes someone who analyzes one’s body from head to toe. An image of one’s self can be implemented by both positive and negative thoughts of how people portray themselves. Generally, people struggle with their own physique because they want to live up to their societies standards. Because of this issue, both men and women torture their bodies to look like the image that they believe that the society will accept. An individual’s body image is not only influenced from society’s point of view, but one’s own self-esteem. Self- esteem determines how an individual feels about his or herself and can insinuate every quality of existence. While humanity plays a significant role on a person’s body image, it will constantly …show more content…
Keeping a certain image to fit in has to be the toughest situation a woman can go through. I knew that body image through media had a big influence on women, but I did not think it was to that extreme for women to become depressed and start to hurt their bodies. It is sad to see how these women cannot feel comfortable in their own skin because of all the proactive advertisements that are presented in the world. Also with menopause, every woman is going to go through it, so they should not feel ashamed about it because that is just how our body works. Lastly, with the diversity aspect, different cultures should have their own beliefs on how they view body image and should not live up to any norm that they are not comfortable with. The most challenging portion of this paper was gathering up all of the research. This essay opened my eyes to different ways I can approach and research up coming papers for the