An Investigation on the Relationship Between Celebrities’ Ideal Body Images on Social Media and Young Generation’s Body Dissatisfaction

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10.2991/assehr.k.210519.249How to use a DOI?

Keywords

body dissatisfaction, body images, social media, young generation

Abstract

The current research was conducted to examine whether celebrities on social media intensify body dissatisfaction of the young generation or not. Young people aged from 18 to 24 years old from the top three cities in South, North, and East China were investigated by a survey experiment. Unlike previous studies, my finding took both behaviors and mental states into consideration when drawing conclusions on the degree of body dissatisfaction. This research demonstrated that both sexes became more unsatisfied with their bodies mentally. In addition, surprising results about the impacts of body dissatisfaction on specific body parts dissatisfaction between sex were discovered. The outcome showed, comparing to other body parts, females disliked their shoulders and chests more, while males disliked their thighs and stomachs more, being the opposite to the stereotypes. Nonetheless, only males would alternate their behaviors, such as exercising, to cope with the dissatisfaction. Thus, counterintuitively, ideal body images did not harm people’s healths physically. It is convincing to deduce that reducing exposure of ideal body images is incapable of relieving body anxiety and physical health problems like eating disorders.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jing Chen
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/05/20
TI  - An Investigation on the Relationship Between Celebrities’ Ideal Body Images on Social Media and Young Generation’s Body Dissatisfaction
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1267
EP  - 1274
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210519.249
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210519.249
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