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Media portrayals of physical perfection contribute to eating disorders
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7 sources for · 1 against

Multiple scholarly sources and reference works indicate that media portrayals of physical perfection and unrealistic beauty standards contribute to body dissatisfaction and eating disorders.

Evidence for · 7
Social Media, Thin-Ideal, Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis
2019 · cited by 353
Links social media beauty ideals to disordered eating attitudes among college women.
Evidence against · 1
Pre‐attentive exposure to the thin female beauty ideal does not affect women's mood, self‐esteem and eating behaviour
2001 · cited by 16
Finds brief subliminal exposure to thin beauty ideals had no significant effect on eating behavior.
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More for · 6
Incorporating social media and muscular ideal internalization into the tripartite influence model of body image: Towards a modern understanding of adolescent girls' body dissatisfaction.
2022 · cited by 132
Shows media appearance pressures contribute to body dissatisfaction, an antecedent to eating disorders.
Socio-cultural power of social media on orthorexia nervosa: An empirical investigation on the mediating role of thin-ideal and muscular internalization, appearance comparison, and body dissatisfaction.
2023 · cited by 47
Links social media health and fitness involvement to orthorectic eating tendencies.
Effects of Media Health Literacy School-Based Interventions on Adolescents’ Body Image Concerns, Eating Concerns, and Thin-Internalization Attitudes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
2020 · cited by 33
Finds media literacy interventions reduce eating and body image concerns among adolescents.
Images of bodies in mass and social media and body dissatisfaction: The role of internalization and self-discrepancy
2022 · cited by 23
Examines how media body ideals increase body dissatisfaction through self-discrepancy.
Wikipedia: Eating disorder
cited by 0
Reference article covering this claim directly
OpenAIRE: LIKES, LIES, AND LOW SELF-ESTEEM: MEDIA'S BODY IMAGE TRAP
2026 · cited by 0
Examines how unrealistic media beauty standards and ideals contribute to eating disorders.
Everything we examined (14)
  1. Wikipedia: Eating disorderreferencesupports
  2. Book: Screening Gender on Children's Televisionreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  3. Book: A Wellness Way of Lifereferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  4. Book: Lying in Weightreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  5. Book: Perspectives on Contemporary Issuesreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  6. OpenAIRE: LIKES, LIES, AND LOW SELF-ESTEEM: MEDIA'S BODY IMAGE TRAPpeer-reviewedsupports
  7. OpenAIRE: Beauty, Ethics, and the Search for the Ideal Selfpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. OpenAIRE: Dreams Designedpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  9. Social Media, Thin-Ideal, Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysispeer-reviewedsupports
  10. Incorporating social media and muscular ideal internalization into the tripartite influence model of body image: Towards a modern understanding of adolescent girls' body dissatisfaction.peer-reviewedsupports
  11. Socio-cultural power of social media on orthorexia nervosa: An empirical investigation on the mediating role of thin-ideal and muscular internalization, appearance comparison, and body dissatisfaction.peer-reviewedsupports
  12. Effects of Media Health Literacy School-Based Interventions on Adolescents’ Body Image Concerns, Eating Concerns, and Thin-Internalization Attitudes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysispeer-reviewedsupports
  13. Images of bodies in mass and social media and body dissatisfaction: The role of internalization and self-discrepancypeer-reviewedsupports
  14. Pre‐attentive exposure to the thin female beauty ideal does not affect women's mood, self‐esteem and eating behaviourpeer-reviewedrefutes
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judged → SUPPORTED · 7105 Aug 2026
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