Exploring equality in men's and women's pursuits of ideal body images : a case study on Singapore's undergraduates.

• Main Author: Wong, Yuen Yin.
• Other Authors: Tan Joo Ean
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51740
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The need to look good has gained increasing importance and caused wider implications in today’s society. Sociocultural forces such as the media play significant roles in influencing and shaping individuals’ body image perceptions. Extant literatures place a disproportionate amount of focus on women’...