PSYC2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Muscle Dysmorphia, Eating Disorder, Developing Country
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Shows you what you should look like and how to achieve that (diets etc. ) Upward social comparison: compare you to someone better, makes you feel bad. Downward social comparison: compare you to someone worse, makes you fee. Currently plateaued at an unrealistically small body type that many cannot achie. First documented case of an: 1873 (before media was so prominent) Aware of the standards-recognising that in our culture we value particular. Third step - take on personally meaningful belief. Peer influences + media exposure + family influences --> internalisation --> body dissati. Woman seem to be more diagnosed with eating disorder than men. Woman are also more likely to report body dissatisfaction. However men present in very similar ways to women. See self as scrawny, weak despite muscular physique. African americans, hispanic americans less likely to internalise thin-ideal body. Also more accepting of range of body type.
