In order to gain a better understanding of the factors that help to cause an eating disorder I choose to reed the article “Changes in Television and Magazine Exposure and Eating Disorder Symptomatology”. The article written by Kimberley K. Vaughan and Gregory T. Fouts is a study that examines how changes in media use, such as magazines and television, during early adolescents may be associated with changes in eating disorder symptomatology in girls as they progress through early ad

olescence. Earlier studies by Vaughan and Grout showed that a portion of about two to four percent of girls have subclinical eating issues in early adolescence. It was thought that these girls seek particular media exposure to learn how to become thinner and more attractive, identify wishfully with magazine models and television characters who have body shapes that the admire, and provide a basis of social comparison which may serve as additional motivation to lose weight. Vaughan and Grout predicted that as girls increase their media exposure, their eating disorder symptomatology would increase.

After careful examination of the frequency of magazine readings, no significant main effect of either time was found. Although, according to the Children’s Eating Attitude Test, the student participants who spent more time reading magazines had an increase in eating disorder symptomatology. Conversely, girls who had decreased their magazine reading had a decrease in eating disorder symptomatology. This portion of the experiment indicates that increases and decreases in eating disorder sy

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