Appearance-Related Social Networking Sites and Body Image in Young Women: Testing an Objectification-Social Comparison Model
| Autor: | Graham Leslie Bradley, Amanda Louise Duffy, Veya Seekis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Gender Studies
Social comparison theory 050103 clinical psychology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 05 social sciences Developmental and Educational Psychology 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Objectification Psychology Social psychology General Psychology Test (assessment) |
| Zdroj: | Psychology of Women Quarterly. 44:377-392 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6402 0361-6843 |
| Popis: | In this study, we drew on an integrated model of objectification and social comparison theories to test the associations between young women’s use of social networking sites and their body image concerns. A sample of 338 undergraduate women, aged 17–25 years, completed online questionnaire measures of engagement in three social networking site activities (browsing or following celebrity, fashion, and beauty sites, browsing or following fitspiration-related content, and placing importance on online “likes” and comments). Also assessed were upward appearance comparison, body surveillance, social appearance anxiety, and two indices of body image concerns (drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction). Structural equation modeling was used to test two competing models, both of which posited social appearance anxiety as the immediate precursor to body image concerns. In line with the integrated objectification-social comparison model, results supported a serial mediation model that comprised significant paths from two of the social networking site activities (browsing or following celebrity, fashion, and beauty sites, and placing importance on online “likes” and comments) through, in turn, upward appearance comparison, body surveillance, and social appearance anxiety, to drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction. Viewing fitspiration-related content was associated with body image concerns directly, rather than indirectly. Findings highlight objectification and appearance comparison factors as targets for future interventions regarding appearance-related social networking site use. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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