ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2020
Effects of Social Media and Smartphone Use on Body Esteem in Female Adolescents: Testing a Cognitive and Affective Model.
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- The Persian version of the body esteem scale among Iranian adolescents: a translation, psychometrics, and network analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Social Media Devices' Influence on User Neck Pain during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Collaborating Vertebral-GLCM Extracted Features with a Decision Tree.Journal of imaging · 2023Article
- The social media diet: A scoping review to investigate the association between social media, body image and eating disorders amongst young people.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Systematic Bias in Self-Reported Social Media Use in the Age of Platform Swinging: Implications for Studying Social Media Use in Relation to Adolescent Health Behavior.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
We examined the predictive relations of social media and smartphone use to body esteem in female adolescents and the mechanism that underlies these relations. As a result of frequent social media and smartphone use, adolescents are continually exposed to appearance-related media content. This likely reinforces a thin ideal and fosters appearance-based comparison and increases fear of external evaluation. Hence, we investigated a cognitive-affective framework in which the associations of social media and smartphone use with body esteem are serially mediated by cognitive internalization of an ideal body image, appearance comparisons, and social appearance anxiety. By testing female adolescents (
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