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'Women's Mags Playdown Emotional Risks Of Cosmetic Surgery'
The study is the first to examine how women's magazines portray cosmetic surgery to Canadians.
It also found that male opinions on female attractiveness are routinely used to justify cosmetic surgery and that a disproportionate amount of articles are devoted to breast implants and cosmetic surgery among women aged 19-34.
"Alongside beauty, clothing and diet advice, women's magazines present cosmetic surgery as a normal practice for enhancing or maintaining beauty, becoming more attractive to men and improving emotional health," said Andrea Polonijo, who conducted the research at UBC as an undergraduate honours thesis in the Dept. of Sociology.
The researchers examined how Canada's five most popular English-language women's magazines - Chatelaine, Cosmopolitan, O: The Oprah Magazine, Flare and Prevention - portray cosmetic surgery. The study focused on 35 articles published between 2002 and 2006.
"Magazines are communicating the physical risks of cosmetic surgery more than the emotional health risks," says Polonijo,
She also noted that studies have found that emotional health issues such as anxiety and depression may arise or increase in women who undergo physically successful cosmetic surgery, regardless of their preoperative emotional state.
It was found that among the articles that mention emotional health, only 18 per cent suggest cosmetic surgery may be detrimental to emotional well-being.
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