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Unhealthy aging? Featuring older people in television food commercials in China
Jiao, Wen; Chang, Angela Wen Yu
2020-09-10
Source PublicationInternational Journal of Nursing Sciences
ISSN2352-0132
Volume7Pages:S67-S73
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Objectives: Advertising messages can affect the public as a risk or protective factor for socially disadvantaged groups, and they may reflect how characters reflect perceptions are perceived in a society. This study aimed to investigate how older people are portrayed in televised food commercials from the approach of a healthy aging perspective in contemporary Chinese society. Methods: All televised advertising in the Ad Topic archive were screened against inclusion and exclusion criteria, and a total of 164 commercials from the years of 2016–2019 that portrayed Chinese older people were sampled. The association between the main older characters with the product categories, healthy vs. unhealthy foods, use of health claims, sex, type of spokesperson, companions, and tones and manners were included in the analysis. Results: Older people more frequently appeared in unhealthy food products than in healthy food products. Health claims involving older adults were portrayed adequately, whereas nursing professions as companions of older adults were overlooked. Positive advertising that delivered happy, caring, or warm tones was overwhelmingly represented. Thus, the advertising messages circulated in China represent a binary stereotype model of images of older adults’ characteristics that reflect ageist and the so-called agelessism, referring to the new application of the look from the approach of social psychology and marketing field. Conclusions: This study examined aging discrimination reflected in advertisements. Studies exploring the impact of a crisis remain limited. Research is needed to improve the accuracy of advertised healthy older adults and normal aging.

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KeywordAdvertising Aged Ageism China Food Healthy Aging Marketing Stereotypes
DOI10.1016/j.ijnss.2020.07.007
URLView the original
Indexed ByESCI
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaNursing
WOS SubjectNursing
WOS IDWOS:000572679700013
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85089549901
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Social Sciences
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION
Corresponding AuthorChang, Angela Wen Yu
AffiliationDepartment of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau, China
First Author AffilicationFaculty of Social Sciences
Corresponding Author AffilicationFaculty of Social Sciences
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Jiao, Wen,Chang, Angela Wen Yu. Unhealthy aging? Featuring older people in television food commercials in China[J]. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 2020, 7, S67-S73.
APA Jiao, Wen., & Chang, Angela Wen Yu (2020). Unhealthy aging? Featuring older people in television food commercials in China. International Journal of Nursing Sciences, 7, S67-S73.
MLA Jiao, Wen,et al."Unhealthy aging? Featuring older people in television food commercials in China".International Journal of Nursing Sciences 7(2020):S67-S73.
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