ipl-logo

Orchard Park Survey

1216 Words5 Pages

In order to determine the accuracy of my hypothesis, I created a survey and distributed the survey out to 46 students attending Orchard Park Secondary School. This was done in order to shed more light on the topic, my inquiry and hypothesis. I was hoping to see that self – esteem issues can be present in both males and females equally; however, that was not the case. The survey conducted serves as a way of means to determine how students feel about themselves. Nobody is perfect, everyone knows this; however, if given the chance I would not change anything about myself. The student body of Orchard Park disagrees. About 55 percent (Appendix 1) of people who took this survey would change a physical attribute about themselves such as their eyes, …show more content…

On question on my survey was whether if a person ever compares themselves to the same gender and if they did, what their usual thoughts are. About 73.9 percent (Appendix 4) of the people who answered this survey admit to comparing themselves to someone of the same gender. In this survey, 16 out of 24 females, that is 66.7 percent, (Appendix 4), state that their usual thoughts are categorized under beauty, appearance, and health, for example, one may wish they were skinny as another girl or beautiful like her. Some of negatives thoughts were “I wish I was pretty like her… I’m not smart, pretty, fit or attractive as them… how is she so pretty unlike me who is ugly”, while some of the positive thoughts were “I always think of myself as a unique individual, I also don’t really care what society may think of me physically because I am not trying to impress them… I am beautiful”. These kinds of negative thought are not healthy for anyone as it can lead to mental health issues, eating disorders, and physical health issues. These kinds of positive thoughts show that many are not affected with what society has to say and will enjoy their body and like just the way it …show more content…

The answer was not as hoped. About 91.3 percent (Appendix 5) of the people believe that females have a lower self- esteem. Why do 91.3 percent of the people who took this survey believe that females have a lower self- esteem? Simply because females wear piles of makeup, feel the need to lose weight, and follow trends displayed on social media to fit in with society and their societal rules. With all this pressure and standards to be pretty, fit, and be fashion, it is no wonder females have a lower self-

Show More
Related

  • Annotated Bibliography On Beyonce

    1120 Words  | 5 Pages

    Marium Javaid and Iftikhar Ahmad authors of the study from the University of Management and Technology in Lahore, Pakistan had two phases for the study. In the first phase of the study, 97 undergraduate students were under administration of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Self-Esteem Scale, Body Image Satisfaction, and Figure Rating Scale. The second phase was, 47 women volunteered and were shown images of the ideal women as in intervention. They were asked after looking at the images to complete the Negative and Positive Affect Schedule and Body Image Scale, and it was performed a second time to look into the views of their recent feelings and views of themselves. The results of both of the phases showed that in the first phase of the study showed that self-esteem and body mass predicted body satisfaction, and in the second phase results it was shown that the females of the different body weight showed no change in their body satisfaction, except the overweight female

    Read More

  • What Is The Media's Effect On Body Image

    244 Words  | 1 Pages

    Everyday females are exposed to how media views the female body, whether in a work place, television ads, and magazines. Women tend to judge themselves on how they look just to make sure there keeping up with what society see as an idyllic women, when women are exposed to this idea that they have to keep a perfect image just to keep up with media, it teaches women that they do not have the right look because they feel as if they don’t add up to societies expectations of what women should look like, it makes them thing there not acceptable to society. This can cause huge impacts on a women self-appearance and self-respect dramatically. Women who become obsessed about their body image can be at high risk of developing anorexia or already have

    Read More

  • Anita Loughrey's Stopping Childhood Obesity

    2046 Words  | 9 Pages

    Girls will tend to have a more insecurity about their selves because the way their bodies look (Loughrey.

    Read More

  • Persuasive Essay On Being A Twin

    450 Words  | 2 Pages

    Growing up and even to this day, my sister and I are always being compared to each other. When people compare our appearances, they would point out the same few flaws; such as myself having a rounder

    Read More

  • Black Women In The 1950's

    735 Words  | 3 Pages

    The ideal of a women magazine model are full of photos with women who are typically white and very thin. Many women will agree that they may feel pressured to dress or look a certain way because of the way the models look. The media can make women feel insecure about themselves and have low self-esteem. The messages in the media says that women will always need to make an adjustment to fit the “ideal” look. Since, the media portrays such images and make women feel like beauty is important women need to make sure they love themselves.

    Read More

  • Rachel Simmons 'Selfies Are Good For Girls'

    248 Words  | 1 Pages

    In Rachel Simmons article “Selfies Are Good for Girls”, she claim that self portrait increases the self-esteem level of teenage girls as their conscious narcissism rises. She assert that as girls get older their confidence level decreases because stereotyping in society increases along with judging people based on their outer appearances. To show addition, Simmons’s say if girls “act too confident” they will be isolated. She claim that young women denied compliments with intense rejection because they want to hear more of the compliments. Simmons emphasis that “selfie is tiny pulse of girl pride - a shout-out to the self.

    Read More

  • Social Objectification Theory

    745 Words  | 3 Pages

    Self-schemas related to body appearance are thought to influence how individuals respond in various social and private contexts (Cash et al., 2004 and Cash et al., 2005). Women are under constant pressure to achieve and maintain unrealistic slim and toned bodies in accordance with the Western cultural ‘ideal’ (Thompson & Heinberg, 1999) which increases the likelihood of negative emotions and body image disturbance (Brunet et al., 2012, Cash and Smolak, 2011, Fox, 2000 and Monro and Huon, 2005). Although negative body-related emotions may not always lead to clinical psychopathologies such as eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, and depression, they are associated with reduced overall psychological well-being (Davidson and McCabe, 2005, McKinley, 2006 and Moradi and Huang,

    Read More

  • Argumentative Essay: The First Miss American Beauty Pageant

    1461 Words  | 6 Pages

    The distressing inquiry “am I beautiful?” generates 228,300,000 more Google results than “am I intelligent?” and “am I a good person?” combined. Inevitably, people always search for traces of their superiority over others－counting among them, beauty.

    Read More

  • Analysis: A Modest Inquiry In Regards To Single-Sex Education

    1820 Words  | 8 Pages

    Lereya, Suzet Tanya et al. "Body-Esteem Of Pupils Who Attended Single-Sex Versus Mixed-Sex Schools: A Cross-Sectional Study Of Intrasexual Competition And Peer Victimization. " Journal of Adolescence 37.7 (2014): 1109-1119. Web.

    Read More

  • Social Media Affecting Women's Body Image

    1702 Words  | 7 Pages

    When women are uncomfortable with their body, they get taken advantage of by companies trying to sell their products varying from protein shakes, “magic pills”, to surgical procedures (Lin). But all of this can be prevented with six simple themes to address. First, with family, friends, and other relationships, we can further educate each other and work together to come up with alternatives to these linked issues with body image. Secondly, we can put an end to teasing and bullying. No one has the right to or entitlement to emotionally, mentally, or physically harm another person for the way they look.

    Read More

  • Argumentative Essay On Body Image

    1152 Words  | 5 Pages

    Men and women nowadays are starting to lose self-confidence in themselves and their body shape, which is negatively impacting the definition of how beauty and body shape are portrayed. “...97% of all women who had participated in a recent poll by Glamour magazine were self-deprecating about their body image at least once during their lives”(Lin 102). Studies have shown that women who occupy most of their time worrying about body image tend to have an eating disorder and distress which impairs the quality of life. Body image issues have recently started to become a problem in today’s society because of social media, magazines, and television.

    Read More

  • Pressure On Women In Society

    800 Words  | 4 Pages

    “Body dissatisfaction, negative body image, concern with body size, and shape represent attitudes of body image. ”(Dixit 1), women are so obsessed with looking good that they are missing out on enjoying

    Read More

  • Scars To Your Beautiful Song Analysis

    402 Words  | 2 Pages

    The song, Scars to Your Beautiful written by Alessia Caracciolo, speaks to the very challenge every young girl experiences by wanting to be seen as beautiful. What is more, the song contrasts the lengths women will go to in order to make themselves appear more beautiful, but perhaps the line “you should know, you’re beautiful the way you are” is the most profound statement for this generation. According to Peta Stapleton, Gabrielle J. Crighton, Brett Carter, and Aileen Pidgeon
(2017), body dissatisfaction is defined as “dysfunctional, negative thoughts and feelings pertaining to one’s weight and shape.” Specifically, Kathleen Berger (2014) states, “Many adolescents obsess about being too short or too tall, too wide in the hips or too narrow

    Read More

  • Volunteering Observation

    572 Words  | 3 Pages

    For my observation, I had the privilege of volunteering at East Gadson High School, located in Quincy Florida. During my observation I was able to interview and speak to two young ladies about their lives. I have been observing these students for approximately 3 weeks and I have acquired enough information that I believe is relative to what we have learned in class. For my observation, I would like to focus on chapter 6, Self-Concept, Identity, Ethnicity and Gender. During my time at EGHS, I observed two students from different backgrounds.

    Read More

  • Gender Stereotypes In Research

    1784 Words  | 8 Pages

    Culture and experience has produced stereotypes, and it is known that these stereotypes has contents (Schneider, 1991, 1996, 2005). These contents refer to gender, age and race (2005). Furthermore these contents affect the behavior of people and in other words, people begin to act differently upon knowing the age, race and gender of an individual (2005). Interactions with other people could also identify the existence of stereotypes and it is believed that stereotypes are made up of positive and negative traits of an individual or a group, howsoever stereotypes is mostly made up of negative traits (2005).

    Read More

More about Orchard Park Survey

Open Document