Women s Adverse Health Risks After Reading - 1265 Words

Women Develop Adverse Health Risks after Reading ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Jaclyn Napoli University of South Florida The purpose of the research found in ‘Fiction or Not? Fifty Shades is Associated with Health Risks in Adolescent and Young Adult Females’ by Amy Bonomi, et al. (2014) was to look for an association between reading fiction novels that illustrated violence towards women and health risks. The theory being examined in this article is that popular fiction novels are normalizing violence towards women, abuse and unhealthy behaviors while playing it off as the romance behind the relationship (Bonomi et al., 2014). The hypothesis of this study is that women who read popular fiction novels, that depict violence†¦show more content†¦Women who partially read the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ series were excluded from the study â€Å"to create the cleanest exposure groups† (Bonomi et al., 2014). ‘White’, ‘Black’, ‘Asian’ and ‘other’ were races that were documented. The women’s sexual orientation was also noted; which included heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual and asexual. Finally, the women indicated what year in college they were in at the time of the survey. The participants in the study completed an online survey. The questions appeared in an order to reduce response bias by asking questions related about ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ last. First, the women completed questions pertaining to their demographics; such as age, race, sexual orientation and year in college. Next, â€Å"eight questions were used to assess lifetime (ever) exposure to physical (one question), sexual (two questions), and nonphysical (five questions) abuse, including cyber-abuse, by an intimate partner†. These women were then asked questions about their health that can be resulted from intimate partner violence; such as â€Å"disordered eating, binge drinking and [sexual practices].† Disordered eating was assessed by asking about participant’s â€Å"use of diet aids or fasting for 24 or more hours to lose weight.† Binge drinking was defined by the â€Å"Centers for Disease Control and the