Limiting the Effects of the Media on Body Image

"Limiting the Effects of the Media on Body Image: Does the Length of a Media Literacy Intervention Make a Difference?" was written by Rebecca Watson and Lisa M. Vaughn and was published in Eating Disorders on October 1, 2006. In this journal article, Watson and Vaughn discusses how they did a study on 54 college undergraduate girls to see how much they knew about media's influence on body image and then had four different types of conditions or interventions. They used the Body Esteem Scale to determine how all 54 of the girls felt about their body. Their hypothesis was that people who had a short or long term intervention would have similar results in improvements for an awareness of media's ideals of body image. After testing the hypothesis they found out that short and long term interventions did improve body dissatisfaction and awareness of media's ideals of body image.
 
I chose this journal article because it is another good idea to help fix the negative influence the media has on teen's body image. Not only does this journal provide a good way to fix the media's body image influence it also provides good statistics about how many teenage girls get eating disorders because they want to look like the celebrities they see on TV or in magazines.