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Essay Archive - Linking Media with Fitness Perceptions: A Study on the Affect of Media on Fitness and Body Image
Linking Media with Fitness Perceptions: A Study on the Affect of Media on Fitness
and Body Image
This research examined the media and how it affects fitness and body image.
This was assessed by collecting data from surveys taken by three groups of ten
high school students, five of each sex. Two of the three groups were exposed to
different media packages, one depicted images of unnaturally thin individuals,
the other depicted athletic figures, while the third group was exposed to no
prior data. The results i....
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