{"id":2298,"date":"2019-11-14T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2019-11-14T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T05:00:01","slug":"curvy-models-not-only-look-good-they-make-women-feel-better-about-their-bodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=2298","title":{"rendered":"Curvy Models Not Only Look Good, They Make Women Feel Better About Their Bodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women pay more attention to\u2014and feel better after looking at\u2014models who are average and curvy compared to models who are thin. That\u2019s the conclusion of a new study from Florida State University researchers, published last week in the journal Communication Monographs<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Women in the study also remembered more details about fashion models who were not super skinny, and they were less likely to compare themselves to women of more realistic proportions.<\/p>\n

The study involved 49 college-age women, all of whom considered themselves \u201caverage\u201d weight but aspired to be thinner. The women were shown various images of fashion models\u2014taken from the Macy\u2019s and Target websites\u2014who\u2019d been classified by the researchers as either “thin,”\u00a0“average,”\u00a0or “plus-size.” (The “plus-size” models all appeared to be overweight or obese, but none were morbidly obese.)<\/p>\n

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After the women observed each image, they were asked to categorize the model based on her body type, rate how attractive and pleasant they perceived her, and indicate how much they compared themselves to her. They were also asked about their own levels of body satisfaction, and\u2014as a \u201cdistractor question\u201d meant to mask the true intent of the study\u2014whether they planned to buy the clothing depicted in the image. The women were then shown an unrelated short video, and afterward were asked some questions to evaluate their memory about the models.<\/p>\n

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Their responses revealed very different opinions toward models of different sizes. When thin women were on the screen, the participants made more comparisons to their own bodies, paid less attention, and remembered less about the models. They also reported less body satisfaction, which the researchers say can be bad for mental and physical health.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When viewing average and curvy women, on the other hand, the participants paid better attention, remembered more, made fewer self-comparisons, and reported higher body satisfaction\u2014despite the fact that they all admitted they wanted to be thinner.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe found overwhelmingly that there is a clear psychological advantage of depicting the non-ideal body type in media campaigns,\u201d the authors wrote in their paper. \u201cThese findings suggest that incorporating more realistically sized fashion models in the media might have its benefits in terms of improved health outcomes,\u201d they add, including less dejection and more body satisfaction for a female audience.<\/p>\n

The study\u2019s sample size was small and only included college-age women who wanted to lose weight, and the authors say their findings should be replicated with people of different genders, ages, ethnicities, and body images. But lead researcher Russell Clayton, PhD, director of the Cognition and Emotion Lab at FSU, tells Health<\/i> that the findings \u201ctell an interesting story about the current trend of depicting plus-size models in media campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Clayton also says the study results can be eye-opening for women who do want to be thinner, in terms of how viewing images of realistic versus \u201cideal\u201d body types might affect their self-confidence and personal body satisfaction. (That\u2019s especially important in a world where media is inundated with unrealistic body goals\u2014which, by the way, are often altered or strategically photographed.) The bottom line? Pay attention to how images of other women truly make you feel<\/i>, not just whether they match your idea of the perfect figure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women pay more attention to\u2014and feel better after looking at\u2014models who are average and curvy compared to models who are thin. That\u2019s the conclusion of a new study from Florida State University researchers, published last week in the journal Communication Monographs. Women in the study also remembered more details about fashion models who were not…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}