At the moment when thinness is the standard, "thinness" is not only a high-frequency word in women's daily conversation, but also affects all aspects of women's life, whether it is diet preference, dress matching, or daily life and sports.
"Thin ideal" has become the image bible of women.
Thin ideal refers to women's beautiful imagination and hope for the ideal figure with "thinness" as the evaluation core. Individuals will show their persistence and strong pursuit of slimming after internalizing it.
Through in-depth interviews with 19 young women, this paper finds that "young women show two psychological patterns in slimming, namely, slimming desire, self-objectification, physical dissatisfaction and eating disorder, and they show dynamic intersection and superposition."
The reasons mainly include the need to pursue health, the desire to enhance charm, the guidance of aesthetic culture, the constraint of physical discipline and the help of media publicity.
The results show that the aesthetic culture of characters is the core factor of the prevalence of thin ideals, which confirms the relevant theories of cultural psychology and adds a local perspective to the research in this field.
Respondents 19, the age difference is obvious. The difference between life background and life experience is helpful to enrich the research results.
The initial interviewees were selected from college students, beauty institutions and members of health clubs, and continued to sample based on the network resources provided by these interviewees. The sampling method ensures the representativeness of the sample to a certain extent and can meet the research needs.
The main contents include how to define the "thinness" of the body, how you are influenced by the "thinness ideal" and the reasons why "thinness ideal" is popular.
They are all different.
Slimming bible
On the whole, young women's slimming psychology under the influence of "thin ideal" shows two forms: beauty and deviation, including slimming desire, self-objectification, physical dissatisfaction and eating disorder.
Except for "slim eyesight", others are all negative forms of deviation, and the experience of "physical dissatisfaction" is the strongest.
//intoxicated with the beauty after slimming: slimming eyesight
Nowadays, the phenomenon of retouching in advertisements is no longer a trade secret. Even if women clearly realize that "the image is unreal", they still want their bodies to look like models in advertisements.
Their reaction to thin images will not change because the images are true or false.
This may be because these advertisements make them experience more positive emotions. Although they will experience negative emotions because of the gap between themselves and their ideal figure, they will experience positive emotions because they expect a better life after slimming down.
The positive emotion brought by this "slimming vision"-intoxicated with the beauty after slimming-can promote the improvement of physical satisfaction.
My clothes are basically bought online, and those seller shows are really "cheating"! ... legs are like sticks ... but they are really beautiful! My legs are too thick, so I can't wear high boots. If only I were so thin! (fifth place)
I pay special attention to the shaping of my legs when I do yoga now. I've always wanted to be thinner, and it's only good to look thinner. Some pants are too lazy to return when they are thin, just to spur themselves to lose weight. (seventh place)
The desire to lose weight is a beautiful driving force for women to lose weight. Repeated contact with virtual or real thin images can induce positive emotions, that is, under the psychological impetus of "I will become so thin", individuals will experience the desire for the future figure, which can promote women to participate in social comparison more benign, such as self-motivation in body management.
The promotion of psychological experience brought by short-term slimming expectations may not necessarily lead to actual slimming behavior, but long-term slimming expectations can promote a lifestyle: thinspiration, a lifestyle that encourages women to try to lose weight in the form of pictures, videos and other media to maintain a healthy figure.
To tell the truth, I drank weight loss coffee at first, and lost 10 kg in two months-I felt good after losing weight, but I felt very light after running for two steps. Later, I gave up drinking because I was afraid of being ill ... I wanted to sign up for a fitness class. If I am urged by the coach, I have finished all kinds of homework actively, and I have seen my special spirit in the mirror, as well as the company's small suit (put on). I've been here for more than a year, and I think I can hold on. (ninth place)
//Negative self-image perception: self-objectification
Self-objectification is the internalization of individual's perception of his body image as a third party, which has negative significance for the development of self-concept.
The stereotype effect of women's "beauty is good-looking" interacts with the emerging mainstream cognition of "face value is productivity" (buzzwords, as of 20 19 12 15, Baidu searched with "face value is productivity" as the key word, showing about 1330000 related results).