Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Female Self Image
These authors contributed equally.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.213How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Social Media; Female Body Image; Feminism
- Abstract
With the development of electronic devices, social media has become an indispensable part of our social life. With its help, the voice from the side of the female are more likely to spread. While it is believed that social media has been shaping a non-realistic beauty image for females mainly characterized by thinness and sexual attractions. In order to know the consequences for taking into such an unrealistic image, we analyze its influence from the perspectives of physical and psychological by looking into a total of 24 paper related to this theme. The current review provides a holistic view of the influence of social media on the female self image from the perspective of both biological and psychological. Understanding from such perspectives will not only help women to target the negative physical influences derived from intake of negative body image but also help them to move toward a more integrated psychological state. From both perspectives, it has been observed that although the rise of social media has brought females the chance to spread their ideas, society is still based on a male-dominant worldview. Objectification and social comparison over the body image are prevalent and positively associated with eating disorders and body anxiety among female teenagers and young adults. It is still common among young females to take the male-dominant view and have a lack of female consciousness.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Siyi Ren AU - Yexi Wu AU - Yuchen Zheng PY - 2022 DA - 2022/06/01 TI - Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Female Self Image BT - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1167 EP - 1171 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.213 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.213 ID - Ren2022 ER -