Brown, Amy,
and Helga Dittmar. "Think, "Thin" And Feel Bad: The Role Of
Appearance Schema Activation, Attention Level, And Thin-Ideal Internalization
For Young Women's Responses To Ultra-Thin Media Ideals." Journal Of Social
& Clinical Psychology 24.8 (2008): 1088-1113. Academic Search Premier. Web.
12 Apr. 2013.
Exposure
to thin media models has a negative effect on women's body image, and the
current study extends previous research by examining the relative impact and
interrelation of an individual’s differences in women's internalization of the thin ideal, and an individual’s tendency
to make social comparisons with media
models. Body-focused anxiety of
adult professional women was
examined after they had been exposed to one of three types of images: thin models, average -size
models, or no models. This analysis confirmed that thin-ideal internalization
and tendency toward appearance-related social comparisons act as moderators of media effects, but internalization is
a more proximal and specific predictor of women's anxiety than more general social comparison. Negative reactions to thin images are conditional on
internalization only, whereas high internalization undermines the positive
effects of exposure to average-size models when it combines with strong
habitual social comparison.
I would say this source is very
reliable because it’s from a clinical research as well. Also because it’s
pretty recent since the study was done in 2008.
I think this is a perfect source to
help me prove my argument on how the media has a negative effect on women’s
body issues. I am going to use the statistics that are explained in this
source.
I think that over all this is a pretty good annotation. The only thing i would say is that you first paragraph, the summary, is a little too much. If you took those 4sentences and found a way to make it only 2 sentences I think this anotation would serve its purpose better.
ReplyDeleteI think that you did a very good job summarizing the article, it was very detailed. However, I think you should add to the last part because you do not entirely state why it is useful for your research. You say that you will use the statistics but why are those statistics important, what do they show?
ReplyDeleteI think it was well writing. the summery you gives I can tell what the article was about. gives more example of how this will help you
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