Impact of Body Shaming on Teenagers and Young Adults

This report discusses the negative impact of body shaming on teenagers and young adults, including mental health issues and eating disorders. It also explores the influence of social media on body image and the importance of good mental health.

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Table of Contents
BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................................3
Research methodology.....................................................................................................................4
Search strategy........................................................................................................................4
Research design......................................................................................................................4
Research method....................................................................................................................5
Data collection........................................................................................................................5
Database used.........................................................................................................................5
Findings and results.........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
Books and Journals.................................................................................................................8

BACKGROUND
Body shaming creates high negative impact on teenagers and young adults. This is the one
which can lead to create different health related issues and mental health related problem within
teenagers or young adults. There are many problems which has been faced by teenagers where
they need to get over through the impact on body shaming. In this, teenagers face different
problems like getting humiliated due to their body image, facing eating disorder to maintain the
effective body posture which society expect from them, feeling withdrawn and don’t like to get
any type social interaction, mental health impact and many more. Teenagers are the one who are
very conscious about their body image which is one of the effective factor that can lead to create
high impact on dealing with different problem that are related with their body shape and body
image. Body shaming create high negative impact on individual mental health. This create higher
level of effect on dealing with different health related issues that causes different problems.
These problem should be addressed effective that can have high positive impact on teenagers and
help them to get better and effective lifestyle (Gam and et. al., 2020). There are large number of
populating who get bullied due to their body shape and body image. This includes to lead mental
health impact and create psychological impact on many teenagers and young adults. Teenagers
are sensitive about their body image and they have the perception that when they look good and
having better shape or body image then they can get popular than others and get respect in
society and within peers. This influence them to take too much care about their diet which leads
to create the impact of getting eating disorder. There are many high impact of getting too much
care about their health that can lead to create high negative health impact on their mind-set.
Eating disorder is one of the health related issues which are developed with teenagers and young
adults. This is the one which create the mind-set about their diet which should be in minimum
proportion to take care about their health and body image. Here, eating disorder lead to create
high negative health impact and also may lead to lower body weight which have higher risk of
getting different health related consequences like getting weak, less digestion and other
physiological impact. Social media have also main role that influence teenagers to possess good
body shape and image. This is regarding models which they like to follow and want to look like
them. social media influence teenagers and young adults to achieve good health and make them
conscious regarding taking proper and healthy diet. Teenagers or young adults who are not
having good body posture or body shape they feel nervous and get bullied by their peers. They

feel that they are not good for the society and make themselves withdrawn from the society
which is not good for them. Here, this may lead to create high negative health impact and also
impact their mental health. Good mental health is highly important like getting good physical
health. Good mental health can help teenagers to get better aspect of life and being confident
within life and get better standard of life. During covid impact, such type of body shaming has
been increase due to getting change in body shape during the lockdown period. During the
condition of lockdown teenagers were in their home and consuming more calories than they
needed and not burn calories that needed. This lead to create high negative impact on their body
weight. During this period, there many teenagers who face the issue of getting humiliated due to
getting high body weight during lockdown (Garcıa-Dıaz and et. al., 2021).
Research methodology
Search strategy
The search strategy is defined as the source or the pattern which is usually taken into
account for the data collection. The search strategy usually follows the aspect which is
supportive in order to collect the required data. In addition to this, the PubMed is the major area
which is taking into the consideration for the selection and collection of data. The PubMed is the
vast range of article collection where the article is used to review and processed that is focus on
the evidence-based data. Moreover, there are the springer link and science direct is also search
databases which is helpful in the collection of data which is prefer to the part of information
which make the research more informative and descriptive. Therefore, the number of another
search database is used that include Cochrane library and many more. The PubMed central is the
also a part of PubMed which include various article that is more than million (Leonhardt and et.
al., 2019).
Research design
The research design is usually referring as the framework which is associated with the
method and technique that is chosen by the researcher. Under these associated research design
which include where researcher is used to choose between different type of research method.
Moreover, the strategies usually include experimental studies, survey, correlational and so on. In
addition to this, the experimental data is usually get associated with the number of reviews that is
helpful to produce the aspect which is relatable with the study which make review of the article.

Moreover, the descriptive type of design is more helpful because it help to play key role in the
data collection and selection.
Research method
Research method is defined as the process, strategies or the technique which is based on
the factor of utilises in the collection of the data that provide the evidence which is suitable for
the collection of analysis. In this, there are various uncover new information which help to create
better understanding which is associated with the topic. There is various type of method which is
best suited in the different tool that is associated with the data collection. Usually, the data me be
categories into four main type which is based on the collection on the data. The observational
and experimental method is usually taken into the account which is prefer for the data collection
which is best associated with the development of quality-based research. The method is usually
making help for the number of researchers to collect and validate the data through the method
which is descriptive and elaborative which provide information in all the ways (Milani and et.
al., 2019).
Data collection
The data collection is the major factor which make the research more validated and reliable. In
addition to this, the data is collected through secondary research process which is reliable and
used to take with various article, journals and peer review article for the different database.
These articles are reviewed and make approach towards the confirmation of research topic which
is associated with the social science. Moreover, the data is collected with the several means but
they are used involve with mixed method that include qualitative and quantitative method. The
qualitative method is defined as the data or the information in the form of concept, open ended
question and many more. Whereas, the quantitative method follows the aspect which is based on
the numerical and statistic. In addition to this, the mixed method uses to follow the aspect of
qualitative and quantitative which is prefer to be suitable for the authentic data and make
relevance for the research (Suraya and et. al., 2019).
Database used
The most commonly database are used within the research is PubMed central, Cochrane library
ad many more. The PubMed is defined as the set of articles which have in million which is create
effect on the development of relevant source (Muti and et. al., 2020).

Findings and results
It has been found that teenagers are highly conscious regarding their body weight and their
body shape. This is effective and related with different type of health related issues and problem
that teenagers and young adults face. There are many teenagers who are highly conscious for
their body shape and having different psychology regarding achieving perfect body image within
their peers and society (Stang, S., 2018). There is also high impact on teenagers when any
individual says about their body posture and body weight. Moreover, teenager and young adults
ensure that they should possess good body posture. It has been found that teenagers get affected
due to bulling regarding their health in which there is negative aspect which includes the mental
and physical health. It has also found that teenagers have the perception to look good which can
enable them to get popular within their peers and society and respect them accordingly. They
also need to ensure about the virtual status which they like to show to the world through using
social media. It influences teenagers to motivate regarding achieving perfect figures and
appearance. It can found that there is trending fashion and diet that influence to achieve the good
body posture and body image and teenagers who don’t follow this trend get humiliated or bullied
(Saleem and et. al., 2018).
This lead to also impact individual mental health and enforces to focus on following those
trends to get better appearance to match with the society and to look good and confident. Body
shaming has also negative impact on the individual mental status which includes social anxiety.
This occurs when teenagers get humiliated or bullied which leads to impact their mental health.
In this, teenagers may face getting withdrawn from the social interaction and exclusion. It leads
to result that many teenagers face the depression that leads to risk of suicide. There are large
number of cases which leads to create the risk of getting suicide due to body shaming. There are
also many mental health impact which includes the depression and anxiety within teenagers. This

is the one which influence people to get depression and other mental health related issues which
are not good. It has been found that there are about more than 57% of teenagers who strictly
follow the proper diet to achieve the good physical health along with better body shape and
image. Through the survey it has been found that there are large number of population who agree
that they can do anything for getting in shape and take proper diet. Body shaming also impact
individual mental health which leads to influence their mental status and leads to develop the
suicidal thoughts. There is also influence of social media which may influence teenagers to
achieve perfect body shape and lead to be the reason of getting eating disorder and body
dissatisfaction (Sands and et. al., 2018).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can conclude that teenagers like to get good body shape which
influence them to attract large number of population on the social media. Through getting better
posture they may get influence through feel better. There are many teenagers who are having the
perception that they may get bullied when they don’t have the good body shape. There are many
cases where teenagers face difference issue which can lead to create an impact of getting bullied
due to their body shape and body weight. In this, there are many problems which may arise due
to not getting better or perfect body shape. This may include mental issue like depression,
anxiety. There is also higher risk of getting eating disorder in order to achieve good body weight.
There is also high impact of social media that influence them to achieve the good health.
Teenagers like to get better body weight and maintain their body shape. This may include dieting
and other physical exercise which can be effective in achieving good physical health that can
provide good body shape.

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