ETHICS OF REPRESENTING STOCKHOLM SYNDROME IN BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (2017): THE ROLE OF LANGUAGE AND ITS CULTURAL IMPACT ON THE EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31851/mp30e483Keywords:
Stockholm Syndrome, Ethical Representation, Language and Cultural Impact, Emotional Development, Media LiteracyAbstract
This qualitative study employs a literature review approach to critically examine the ethical representation of Stockholm Syndrome in Beauty and the Beast (2017) and the role of language in shaping its cultural impact on the emotional development of younger viewers. The research investigates how the film's portrayal of Belle and the Beast's evolving relationship marked by captivity, violence, and eventual romantic connection mirrors Stockholm Syndrome dynamics, which may inadvertently normalize harmful behaviors as a basis for love. Key findings reveal ethical concerns, including the blurred lines between trauma bonding and genuine empathy, potentially reinforcing gender stereotypes and fostering acceptance of relational violence among young audiences. Cultural influences, such as patriarchal values and prevalent media consumption patterns, exacerbate risks such as emotional immaturity and insecure attachments. The study concludes that while the film promotes empathy, its problematic narrative calls for media literacy interventions to foster healthier understandings of relationships. It suggests adopting more diverse storytelling methods to mitigate potential long-term psychological effects.
References
Alfiyanto, A., Walidin, W., & Mahmud, S. (2024). Characteristics of Learning Theories in Education According To Psychological Development. Jurnal Konseling Pendidikan Islam, 5(1), 171–187. https://doi.org/10.32806/jkpi.v5i1.132
Anderson, K. (2020). Media influences on empathy and acceptance of well-being aggression: A meta-analysis. Research Gate. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344534850
Anjani, S. A. (2023). The representation of main character ideological hegemonies in Disney’s Cruella by Craig Gillespie (2021) through Antonio Gramsci’s Lens : A sociological literary approach. UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.
Aprilliany, L., & Hermiati. (2021). Peran media film dalam pembelajaran sebagai pembentuk pendidikan karakter. Prosiding Seminar Nasional Program Pascasarjana Universitas PGRI Palembang. https://jurnal.univpgri-palembang.ac.id/index.php/Prosidingpps/article/view/5605
Arsiwela, A. (2024). Stockholm Syndrome as Reflected on Belle in the Beauty and the Beast Movie (2017). Dinamika Pembelajaran : Jurnal Pendidikan Dan Bahasa, 1(3), 329–337. https://doi.org/10.62383/dilan.v1i3.822
Asikin, A. S., Aipipidely, D., & Kiling, I. Y. (2021). Experience of Dating Violence’s Victims in Indonesia: A Photovoice Study. Interpersona, 15(2), 183–196. https://doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.4303
Atmasari, A., & Dara Dwi April Liandani. (2023). Stockholm Syndrome Dan Pemaafan (Forgiveness) Pada Remaja Perempuan Yang Mengalami Kekerasan Dalam Pacaran (Intimate Patner Violence). Jurnal Psimawa : Diskursus Ilmu Psikologi Dan Pendidikan, 6(2), 87-93. https://doi.org/10.36761/jp.v6i2.3545
Berutu, R. F. A. (2024). The Influence of Digital Media on Aggression in Indonesian Adolescents. Indonesian Journal of Health Science, 5(1), 51–59. https://international.appisi.or.id/index.php/IJHS/article/download/341/213
Boardman, A. G., Polman, J. L., Scornavacco, K., Potvin, A. S., Garcia, A., Dalton, B., Stamatis, K., Guggenheim, A., & Alzen, J. L. (2024). Examining Enactments of Project-based Learning in Secondary English Language Arts. AERA Open, 10(1), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584241269829
Coyne, S., Linder, J., Rasmussen, E., Nelson, D., & Birkbeck, V. (2016). Pretty as a princess? Longitudinal effects of engagement with Disney princesses on gender stereotypes, body esteem, and prosocial behavior in children. Child Development, 87(6), 1909–1925. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12559
England, D., Descartes, L., & Collier‐Meek, M. (2011). Gender role portrayal and the Disney princesses. Sex Roles, 64(7–8), 555–567. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-011-9931-7
Fadilah, I. A., Jaya, A., & Uzer, Y. (2023). Visual Representation and Comprehension: the Exploration of Multimodal Text To Energize Reading of the Tenth Grade Students’ At State Vocational High School 5 of Palembang. Esteem Journal of English Education Study Programme, 6(1), 125–130. https://doi.org/10.31851/esteem.v6i1.10226
GLAAD. (2022). Where we are on TV report. GLAAD Media Institute. https://glaad.org/sri/2022/
Graham, C. R. (2016). Blended Learning Systems: Definition, Current Trends, and Future Directions. Graham, Charles R. “Blended learning systems.” The handbook of blended learning: Global perspectives, local designs.
Jaya, A., Hartono, R., Wahyuni, S., & Yulianto, H. J. (2025). Los efectos de la estrategia de aprendizaje basado en proyectos con actividad física en función del género sobre el rendimiento escolar y la confianza en sí mismos de los estudiantes. Retos: Nuevas Tendencias En Educación Física, Deporte y Recreación, 66, 349–360. https://doi.org/10.47197/retos.v66.110067
Johnson, A. (2018). Saving the Beast: Patriarchy and Redemption in Disney Romances. Feminist Media Studies, 18(6), 1024–1041. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2018.1428890
Kementerian Pendidikan, Kebudayaan, Riset, dan Teknologi. (2022). Laporan survei pencegahan kekerasan berbasis gender pada remaja. https://repositori.kemdikbud.go.id/27777
Komnas Perempuan. (2023). CATAHU 2023: Catatan Tahunan Kekerasan terhadap Perempuan. Jakarta: Komisi Nasional Anti Kekerasan terhadap Perempuan. (Dapat diakses gratis: https://komnasperempuan.go.id
Kirshner, D., & Whitson, J. A. (2021). Situated Cognition: Social, Semiotic, and Psychological Perspectives. Taylor & Francis.
Kurniasih, A. P., Pramita, A., & Nurrachman, D. (2024). Discrimination based on gender in film Beauty and the Beast (2017) by Bill Condon. Pupujian: Jurnal Psikologi, 3(1), 40–59. https://ejournal.uinsgd.ac.id/index.php/pupujian/article/view/860
Kusumastuti, A., & Khoiron, A. M. (2021). Metode penelitian kualitatif. Karangwang: Lembaga Pendidikan Sukarno Pressindo (LPSP).
Lee, H., Kim, S., & Kim, J. (2018). Relational aggression tolerance in adolescents exposed to romanticized hostility in media. Journal of Youth Studies, 21(7), 901– 918
Lee, J., Kim, S., & Lee, H. (2018). Media romanticization of relational aggression and adolescent emotional self-efficacy. Child Development, 89(4), 1253–1268. https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.12987
Lenge, K., Doi, M., & Wangga, F. F. I. (2023). the Portrayal of Beauty Myth in Mieko Kawakami’S Novel Breasts and Eggs. Lantern: Journal of Language and Literature, 9(1), 38–45. https://doi.org/10.37478/lantern.v9i1.3955
Li, Y., Deng, T., & Kanske, P. (2023). Affective empathy mediates the positive effect of prosocial video games on young children’s sharing behavior. Cognitive Development, 66, 101343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101343
Linder, R., & Falk-Ross, F. (2024). Multimodal Resources and Approaches for Teaching Young Adolescents: A Review of the Literature. Education Sciences, 14(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14091010
Money, J. (1986). Peta cinta: Konsep klinis kesehatan dan patologi seksual/erotis, parafilia, dan transposisi gender pada masa kanak-kanak, remaja, dan dewasa (Edisi pertama). https://archive.org/details/lovemapsclinical0000mone
Nandi, A. (2016). The Stockholm Syndrome controversy in Beauty and the Beast.
Piaget, J., & Inhelder, B. (2019). The Psychology Of The Child. Hachette UK.
Prawiradilaga, D. S. (2025). Serba Hyper: Untuk Digital Natives. Prenada Media.
Rahmawati, D., & Hidayat, R. (2022). Representasi Perempuan dalam Film Disney: Analisis Feminisme Media. Jurnal Perempuan dan Media, 5(1), 38–52.
Ratri, A. N., & Setiawati, E. (2020). Trauma bonding pada perempuan korban kekerasan dalam pacaran. Jurnal Psikologi, 19(2), 145–156. (Open access via Portal Garuda: https://garuda.kemdikbud.go.id
Revilliano, M. I., Prasetya, A. P., & Diva, A. R. (2023). Budaya Pengaruh Dan Budaya Patriarki Terhadap Gerakan Perubahan Feminisme Dalam Organisasi. Jurnal Manajemen Dan Bisnis Ekonomi, 1(2), 150–159.
Sari, M., & Rukmini, A. (2022). Relasi Kuasa dan Representasi Cinta dalam Beauty and the Beast (2017). Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi Nusantara, 4(3), 211–225.
Suryani, A., Soedarso, S., Windiani, W., Hanoraga, T., Harmadi, S. H. B., & Setyaningsih, Y. (2022). The Social Dimensions of Creativepreneurship Education: Unleashing Youth’s Creative Potentials through Teamwork and Collaborative Creativity. International Journal Pedagogy of Social Studies, 7(1), 43–58. https://doi.org/10.17509/ijposs.v7i1.45766
UNESCO. (2021). Media and information literacy for gender equality. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000377257
Wahyuningrat, F. D., Meiyuntariningsih, T., & Ramadhani, H. S. (2024). Kecenderungan Stockholm Syndrome ditinjau dari secure attachment pada wanita korban kekerasan dalam pacaran. Seurune: Jurnal Psikologi Unsyiah, 7(1), 40–59.
Yodi, S., & Prasetyo, D. (2021). Perancangan Serial Animasi Sebagai Upaya Pelestarian Lagu Daerah Untuk Anak Sekolah Dasar. Jurnal Sains Dan Seni ITS, 10(1), 70–76. https://doi.org/10.12962/j23373520.v10i1.59963
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2025 Salsabila Sandi Hanif, Jasmine Salsabila Naila, Yanti Rosalinah
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Copyright Notice
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
In order to assure the highest standards for published articles, a peer review policy is applied. In pursue of the compliance with academic standards, all parties involved in the publishing process (the authors, the editors and the editorial board and the reviewers) agree to meet the responsibilities stated below in accordance to the Journal publication ethics and malpractice statement.
Duties of Authors:
- The author(s) warrant that the submitted article is an original work, which has not been previously published, and that they have obtained an agreement from any co-author(s) prior to the manuscript’s submission;
- The author(s) should not submit articles describing essentially the same research to more than one journal;
- The authors(s) make certain that the manuscript meets the terms of the Manuscript Submission Guideline regarding appropriate academic citation and that no copyright infringement occurs;
- The authors(s) should inform the editors about any conflict of interests and report any errors they subsequently, discover in their manuscript.
Duties of Editors and the Editorial Board:
- The editors, together with the editorial board, are responsible for deciding upon the publication or rejection of the submitted manuscripts based only on their originality, significance, and relevance to the domains of the journal;
- The editors evaluate the manuscripts compliance with academic criteria, the domains of the journal and the guidelines;
- The editors must at all times respect the confidentiality of any information pertaining to the submitted manuscripts;
- The editors assign the review of each manuscript to two reviewers chosen according to their domains of expertise. The editors must take into account any conflict of interest reported by the authors and the reviewers.
- The editors must ensure that the comments and recommendations of the reviewers are sent to the author(s) in due time and that the manuscripts are returned to the editors, who take the final decision to publish them or not.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post online a pre-publication manuscript (but not the Publisher final formatted PDF version of the Work) in institutional repositories or on their Websites prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access). Any such posting made before acceptance and publication of the Work shall be updated upon publication to include a reference to the Publisher-assigned DOI (Digital Object Identifier) and a link to the online abstract for the final published Work in the Journal.
