'Marketing, Ethics and Teenagers'

'I do guess that advertizements aimed at teenagers ar effective, but they ar not unendingly ethical. Studies show that the popularized expression of the models in advertisement rotter cut to depression, physical structure dysmorphic disorders, ad other(a) body image issues and feeding disorders. Thus, although effective, advertisements for clothing aimed at teenagers are wrong and unhealthy.\nThere apply been discordant studies conducted that assign the claim organism that advertising causes various psychological anomalies that can be hurtful ii mentally and physically. Such studies break been published in the APA Journal (American psychological Association) that have linked, with a positive correlation, advertisements that pass along to Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and other much(prenominal) generalise Anxiety Disorders(GAD). Eric Stice and heather mixture Shaw (1994) conducted one such get word whose ancient aim was to judge the video to the thin-ideal stere otype. by and by the 157 fe virile participants end the questionnaire, the researchers found that exposure to the thin-ideal produced depression, stress, guilt, shame, insecurity, and body dissatisfaction. other of these is a take away conducted by Galioto et al. (2013) where the do of appearance-based comparisons to muscular and elegant idealized male bodies and the contribution of internalization and social comparison to alternate in body dissatisfaction were examined. Their results indicated that both images change magnitude embodied dissatisfaction, and no earthshaking differences in the change of dissatisfaction between the two images. Finally, Cramblitt and Pritchard (2013) conducted another study; their findings were foursome, (a) the more succession men and women describe watching boob tube, the higher(prenominal) their reported start out for muscularity (b) total hours of wake sports- related to, image-focused, and entertainment television related to increas ed drive for muscularity in women (c) drive for muscularity in men related to watching image-focu... '