Reema F Tayyem1, Hiba A Bawadi2, Suhad S AbuMweis3, Sabika Allehdan4, Lana Agraib4, Hadeel A Ghazzawi4, Mariam A Al-Mannai5, AbdulRahman O Musaiger6. 1. Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan. r_tayyem@yahoo.com. 2. Human Nutrition Department, College of Health Sciences, Qatar University, P.O. Box 2713, Doha, Qatar. 3. Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Allied Health, Science, Hashemite University, P.O. Box 150459, Zarqa, 13115, Jordan. 4. Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan. 5. College of Science, University of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain. 6. Arab Center for Nutrition, Manama, Bahrain.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Body image in the mass media promotes an unrealistic picture of body shape that leads to body dissatisfaction among adolescentsQuery. Therefore, the study presented in this paper aimed to assess the association between mass media and adolescents' weight concerns and perceptions of body weight and shape. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on school adolescents aged between 15 and 18 years during the academic year 2013-2014. Multistage stratified sampling method was used. The number of participants in the study was 795 students: 400 boys and 395 girls. RESULTS: All participants have a common behavior in rarely reading magazines, but they spend more than 2 h in watching television or less than 3 h using the internet. However, most of obese/non-obese adolescents, boys or girls, have shown high influence (p < 0.05) of reading magazines on the subject of dieting to lose weight. CONCLUSION: While obese students read more magazines on dieting to lose weight, other mass media did not show the same results on weight concerns and body shape among Jordanian adolescents.
OBJECTIVES: Body image in the mass media promotes an unrealistic picture of body shape that leads to body dissatisfaction among adolescentsQuery. Therefore, the study presented in this paper aimed to assess the association between mass media and adolescents' weight concerns and perceptions of body weight and shape. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on school adolescents aged between 15 and 18 years during the academic year 2013-2014. Multistage stratified sampling method was used. The number of participants in the study was 795 students: 400 boys and 395 girls. RESULTS: All participants have a common behavior in rarely reading magazines, but they spend more than 2 h in watching television or less than 3 h using the internet. However, most of obese/non-obese adolescents, boys or girls, have shown high influence (p < 0.05) of reading magazines on the subject of dieting to lose weight. CONCLUSION: While obese students read more magazines on dieting to lose weight, other mass media did not show the same results on weight concerns and body shape among Jordanian adolescents.
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Adolescents; Body weight concern; Jordan; Mass media
Authors: Dawn M Gondoli; Alexandra F Corning; Elizabeth H Blodgett Salafia; Michaela M Bucchianeri; Ellen E Fitzsimmons Journal: Body Image Date: 2011-02-26
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