Social Media and Body Image Among High School Students: A Research Proposal

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10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_170How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social media; body image; body shame; self-objectification

Abstract

In recent years, teenagers are using social media more and more frequently. Simultaneously, an increasing number of adolescents tend to develop problematic body image spontaneously. Thus, this study focuses on the correlation between social media and body image among adolescents by evaluating adolescents’ body through two scales, namely “Body Self-objectification Beliefs and Behavior” and “Dresden Body Image Questionnaire.” This cross-cultural study examines the use of social media (including Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube shorts, Red, WeChat, and Kakao) among high school students from China, USA Norway, Britain, and South Korea. I have several major hypotheses: 1. The more frequently adolescents use social media, the more negative their body image they will be. 2. The longer they use social media, the higher their degree of self-objectification; 3. The frequency of using visual-based social media is associated with negative body image and a high degree of self-objectification. This study also assumes that culture and gender to be influential factors in this process. By emphasizing the effect of culture on the relationship between social media use and body image, this study fills a gap in current social media and adolescence studies. Moreover, this study analyzes the root causes of adolescents’ growing anxiety about their bodies.

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AU  - Zhixian Piao
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/13
TI  - Social Media and Body Image Among High School Students: A Research Proposal
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1334
EP  - 1340
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_170
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-97-8_170
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