Weighing women down: messages on weight loss and body shaping in editorial content in popular women's health and fitness magazines.
Health Commun
; 29(4): 323-31, 2014.
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| ID: mdl-23844558
ABSTRACT
Exposure to idealized body images has been shown to lower women's body satisfaction. Yet some studies found the opposite, possibly because real-life media (as opposed to image-only stimuli) often embed such imagery in messages that suggest thinness is attainable. Drawing on social cognitive theory, the current content analysis investigated editorial body-shaping and weight-loss messages in popular women's health and fitness magazines. About five thousand magazine pages published in top-selling U.S. women's health and fitness magazines in 2010 were examined. The findings suggest that body shaping and weight loss are a major topic in these magazines, contributing to roughly one-fifth of all editorial content. Assessing standards of motivation and conduct, as well as behaviors promoted by the messages, the findings reflect overemphasis on appearance over health and on exercise-related behaviors over caloric reduction behaviors and the combination of both behaviors. These accentuations are at odds with public health recommendations.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Publicações Periódicas como Assunto
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Imagem Corporal
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Redução de Peso
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Saúde da Mulher
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Autoeficácia
Limite:
Female
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Commun
Assunto da revista:
PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article