ArticleFrontiers in psychology2025
Your fitness-sharing is a reminder for my poor body: how fitness posts exposure on social media harms female body esteem.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Psychosocial transformation in women new to fitness: a phenomenological study on body image, self-confidence, and identity construction.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- They are more beautiful than me! How social media use increases women's body-related envy and cosmetic surgery consideration.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: Prior literature suggests that fitness posts exposure on social media increases female body image concerns. However, little research has been conducted to examine the effect of fitness posts exposure on female body esteem. Objective: Given that, two studies were conducted to investigate how fitness posts exposure on social media exerted an influence on female body esteem. Method and results: By using a questionnaire survey ( Conclusion: Fitness posts exposure produces a negative influence on female body esteem via the mediation of body surveillance, and this pattern is more obvious among women with high appearance contingent self-worth. Appearance-relevant content involved in fitness posts, rather than pure fitness performance, harms female body esteem.
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