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  • Essay / The effect of attractiveness and media on self-esteem

    Experimenters want to examine the relationship between self-esteem and attractiveness; More importantly, how the media's portrayal of what is attractive affects a person's self-esteem and self-worth. The experimenters wish to conduct a Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) as a pre-test for all adult participants. After the pretest is completed, participants will be exposed to 50 images of very attractive people for approximately 20 to 30 seconds. After participants have discarded all the pictures, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) will be given again to see if scores have changed. The experimenters predict that the pretest and posttest will have different scores to show that media images of attractiveness can have a negative impact on a person's self-esteem and self-esteem. How quickly an effect, even for a short time for each image, affects our adult self-esteem and mood. The second group is a controlled group who will receive the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) before and after the test. However, their photos will be of average looking people with the same time as Group 1 of 50 photos in 20-30 seconds. The effects of attractiveness and the media on self-esteem. animals, especially humans. When it comes to mate selection and attractiveness, power and dominance are a huge part of that selection. However, physical power and dominance represent only a small part of a much larger selection of human mates. Society could play the most important role in terms of attractiveness (Puts, 2010). In the Victorian era, attractiveness was defined as someone having very pale skin and being overweight. The reasoning behind these physical traits was stated... middle of article...... The researcher hopes to find that group one and group two have approximately the same baseline measure of their self-esteem. After the experiment is completed, Group 1, the attractive images of men and women, will have a much lower self-esteem score on the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) than Group 2 , images of average to below average men. and women. This may show that the relationship between self-esteem and self-esteem can be affected by media images of what is considered attractive and what is not. The researcher would also be interested to see if group two's self-esteem increases after being exposed to the less attractive images. This would allow us to better understand the relationship between attractiveness and competitiveness. As well as the relationship between media effects and self-esteem and self-esteem..