ReviewCurrent obesity reports2019
Women's Use of Social Media: What Is the Evidence About Their Impact on Weight Management and Body Image?
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- Bodies on Display: A Scoping Review of Appearance-Focused Social Media, Body Image, Self-Esteem, and Psychological Wellbeing in Adolescent Girls and Young Women.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Review
- Associations of employment status with social media addiction, anxiety, and parenting self-efficacy among mothers of infants: a cross-sectional study using machine learning.BMC public health · 2026Article
- COVID-19 and changes in young adults' weight concerns.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
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- Effect of body-related information on food attentional bias in women with body weight dissatisfaction.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Body Dissatisfaction and Restricted Diet in Chinese Adolescents: A Longitudinal Analysis.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Primiparous women's knowledge of diastasis recti abdominis, concerns about abdominal appearance, treatments, and perceived abdominal muscle strength 6-8 months postpartum. A cross sectional comparison study.BMC women's health · 2022Article
- Normative Values for Adolescent Quality of Life in Plastic Surgery: A Longitudinal, Cohort Study.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022Article
- Research on the Formation Mechanism of Individual Food Waste Behavior from the Perspective of Image Construction.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Screen Time and Body Image in Icelandic Adolescents: Sex-Specific Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Social media use and body image issues among adolescents in a vulnerable Louisiana community.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Investigating Public Discourses Around Gender and COVID-19: a Social Media Analysis of Twitter Data.Journal of healthcare informatics research · 2021Article
- Predictors of One-Year Change in How Youth Perceive Their Weight.Journal of obesity · 2020Article
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Abstract
purpose of the reviewThis review aims to summarize recent research on the effects of social media-delivered weight management interventions on weight loss and the impact of social media use on body image concerns in women and adolescent girls. RECENT
findingsEvidence supports the feasibility, but not the efficacy, of studies using single-component social media-delivered weight management interventions (i.e., including no other modes of intervention delivery) in women. Studies conducted in adolescent girls and women suggest that the impact of social media on body image outcomes is mostly detrimental, but is dependent on the context (e.g., exposure to idealized social media appearance images), peers' feedback, and constructs, such as appearance comparison tendency. More research is needed to conclude on the efficacy of social media-delivered interventions on both weight and body image outcomes and to understand how and when exposure to social media could promote effective weight management and also advocate positive body image in women.
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