Role of television in adolescent women's body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness
International Journal of Eating DisordersPublished 1 September 1996
Marika Tiggemann, Amanda S. Pickering
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Investigating the relationship between exposure to one medium, television, and body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness found that amount of time spent watching soaps, movies, and (negatively) sport predicted body dissatisfaction, and the watching of music videos predicted drive forthinness.
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The results are consistent with sociocultural explanations for body dissatisfaction and for the emergence of eating disorders in young women.
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PsychologyArts and Humanities