6-2 Final Project Milestone Four
IDS-402
Renata Chapa
SNHU
My topic that I have fully decided to focus on would be the impact of having a perfect body
image, or the need to obtain the ultimate perfect beautiful body one could reach. I hold this close
to my heart as someone who has always been fit and on the smaller side, I struggled through
each of my three pregnancies and also after due to self-image. Bu what actually determines one's
beauty? Beauty is ultimately in the eye of the actual person looking in the mirror. How does the
need to be perfect and match our social media models being shown to us each day affect our
wellbeing? "The fourth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary (2000) defines it as "the
subjective concept of one's physical appearance based on self-observation and the reactions of
others." In the scientific literature, body image is considered a multidimensional construct
encompassing self-perceptions and attitudes regarding one's physical appearance across
cognitive, affective, perceptual, and behavioral domains."
"Social Science is defined as the study of human society and of individual relationships
in and to society. A scholarly or scientific discipline that deals with such study, generally
regarded as including sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, political science, and
history." The affects that beauty and body image have on us and the way we interact with peers is
based of these beauty standards. When you hear someone say or talk about how someone is
different and viewed in a bizarre way they are technically refusing to conform to society's views
on beauty. We grow up being taught what is beautiful and what isn't through movies and TV
shows we always see the popular beautiful girls over the ones who are grimy and dark. As we
grow up and we are looking for that significant other all through our lives we are 100% of the
time going off physical appearance right away. If we see a man who isn't the standard beauty
than we don't even bother. "The question is, is beauty really only skin deep, or does an attractive
face actually reflect underlying good qualities? In a few ways, the stereotype that "beautiful is
good" does hold. Evolutionary psychology holds that faces really are windows onto certain
fundamental and important characteristics indicative of a person's quality as a romantic partner
and as a mate -- qualities of health and genes, and even character." We are surrounded by the
effects of body image everyday of our lives, if we are spending time with people who are
constantly judging others or judging you, you will in the end feel horrible about yourself leading
you to do the same to others. "The study measured participants' frequency of daily interactions
with body focused and non-body focused others, their degree of body appreciation, meaning how
much one values their body regardless of its size or shape, and body satisfaction, and whether
they ate intuitively in alignment with their hunger and cravings rather than fixating on