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The relationship between body image and self-esteem is explored in this 6 page paper. Age, sex and culture are considered. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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The playground holds far too many little girls who worry about their bodies and surprisingly, a stunning number of little boys with the same concerns. Perhaps media is to blame
or a society so caught up in health and well being that a stigma is attached to licking a chocolate ice cream cone in some affluent communities. Eva Pomice says
that " kids caught up in image obsession are younger than ever, and for the first time, say experts, boys are almost as vulnerable to it as girls are (1995)."
She attributes the reasons for the changes to media influence as well as to parental figures who themselves are absorbed with diets, health and exercise programs. " In a study
of 300 children conducted by Childrens Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati, 29 percent of third grade boys and 39 percent of third grade girls said they had dieted, 60 percent
of sixth grade girls and 31 percent of sixth grade boys reported trying to lose weight (1995)." This is remarkable. The obsession with bodily appearance points toward a general trend
of poor self image among the young as well as for aging men and women. No one is immune! This paper will look at the relationship between self-esteem and body
image particularly as it relates to sex and age. As suggested above, media plays a role in a culture besieged by messages of whats acceptable in terms of appearance.
A 1994 article compared two public figures, Jane Fonda and Barbara Bush, who are both older women with completely different images. Authors suggest the following Although separated by only
half a generation, Jane Fonda and Barbara Bush present us with almost diametrically opposed images of how women can age. Fonda, born in 1937, boasts a "relentlessly improved" body--muscular
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