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Navigating Body Image Influences: Positive & Negative Factors

Explore how peers, family, school, magazines, and TV shape body image. Learn the triggers for voluntary appearance changes. Understand the impact of positive and negative influences.

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Navigating Body Image Influences: Positive & Negative Factors

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  1. Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Influences on Body Image Journal - 9/26/12 Make a list of five ways you have voluntarily changed your appearance in the past few years. Next to each entry, identify what triggered that change.

  2. Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Influences on Body Image Journal - 9/24/14 How can your peers influence your body image? (You must write in paragraph form!!)

  3. Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Influences on Body Image Objectives • Identifyfour factors that influence body image. • Explainhow people in your life can be both positive and negative influences on your body image.

  4. Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Influences on Body Image Your Family and Your Body Image • Your family may make comments about your appearance. Most likely, your family will give you positive support. • But sometimes these comments can hurt your feelings. Remember that your family can be very supportive when you are feeling uncomfortable about your body.

  5. Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Influences on Body Image People at Your School • People at your school also affect your body image. These people include your friends, peers, teachers, and coaches.

  6. Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Influences on Body Image Magazines • Some teens may look at magazines and think that they should look like the models. They may start to feel fat, weak, or ugly. • But just look around you. Do the students in your class look like those models? Probably very few do. These unrealistic images can hurt a teen’s body image.

  7. Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Influences on Body Image Television and Body Image • Many techniques are used to enhance the way people look on TV. • If you have a healthy body image, you won’t compare yourself as much. And even if you do compare yourself, you won’t want to change your body.

  8. Quote of the Day “Our reverence is good for nothing if it does not begin with self-respect.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes

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