ArticleBMC psychology2025
Magic mirror, who is the fairest one of all? testing the mediating effect between short-video social media exposure and appearance anxiety.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association Between Short-Form Video Use and Mental Health: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Fitness-Related Short Video Engagement and Body Appreciation: Gender-Differentiated Indirect Pathways via Exercise Identity and Mindful Eating.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Mediating Role of Psychological Inflexibility in the Relationship Between Social Appearance Anxiety and Problematic Social Media Use Among Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Social media exposure and young women's cosmetic surgery intention: test mediation of capitalization of sexual attractiveness and body surveillance.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Unpacking the indirect association between problematic short-form video use and appearance anxiety.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- The dual-path association between upward social comparison and short video addiction: parallel mediating roles of negative emotions and psychological resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Our aim was to examine the relationship between short-video social media exposure and appearance anxiety among female youth, as well as the serial mediation of capitalization of sexual attractiveness and upward social media appearance comparison. In this study, 585 female youths from China were selected as participants. The Short-Video Social Media Exposure Scale, Capitalization of Sexual Attractiveness Scale, Upward Social Media Appearance Comparison Scale, and Appearance Anxiety Scale were used to measure participants. The findings revealed that the short-video social media exposure positively predicted appearance anxiety. Additionally, the capitalization of sexual attractiveness and upward social media appearance comparison mediated the relationship between short-video social media exposure and appearance anxiety, respectively. Furthermore, the capitalization of sexual attractiveness and upward social media appearance comparison also had a serial mediation effect. The result explained that short-video social media exposure not only predicts appearance anxiety through the mediating effects of capitalization of sexual attractiveness and upward social media appearance comparison, but also by a serial mediation of capitalization of sexual attractiveness and upward social media appearance comparison.
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