Hatoum and Belle XXXXXXXXXXexamined the relationship between media consumption and bodily concerns in a sample of college men. Their research found that a. unrealistically idealized presentations of...

Hatoum and Belle (2004) examined the relationship between media consumption and bodily concerns in a sample of college men. Their research found that

a. unrealistically idealized presentations of male bodies in the media led the men to join a gym.

 b. reading male-oriented magazines that present the “hypermuscular” male body significantly correlated with negative feelings about one’s body.

c. reading male-oriented magazines that present the “hypermuscular” male body significantly correlated with positive feelings about one’s body.

 d. reading male-directed magazines had no relationship with the men valuing thinness in women.