Cross-Sectional Analysis

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Fauquet, Sánchez, Levine, and López (2010) engaged in a cross-sectional analysis that focused on the association between exposure and consumption of media outlets, such as television and magazines, and its relation to body dissatisfaction, excessive weight concern, and bad eating habits. The media integrates ideas, values, attitudes, and behaviors that potentially affect young female girls because it represents a distorted, unrealistic vision of the world and the expectations women are assumed to obtain. In one cross-sectional study conducted by Groesz, Levine, and Murnen (2002), focused on twenty-five experimental studies, which they controlled what the young women were exposed to. For example, excessively thin models in photographs, music

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