The Correlation Between Self-Esteem and Body Image: A Study on Female Adolescent Instagram Users

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10.2991/assehr.k.201209.094How to use a DOI?

Keywords

body image, self-esteem, Instagram users

Abstract

The overall affective evaluation of one’s own worth, value, or importance, as known as Self-esteem (Blascovich & Tomaka, 1991), is constructed by various aspects of self-evaluation, and physical appearance is one of these aspects. Individual body image, how a person perceives his or her body and how satisfied he or she is about it (Grogan, 2016) is likely linked with their self-esteem especially in adolescence which is a period of time when body image concern in young women is at its peak (Burgess et al., in Grogan, 2016). Social media usage, particularly Instagram which is a picture based social media may affect the users’ perceptions about their body due to comparison that possibly happen. The aim of this research is to identify whether self-esteem is linked with body image in female teenager Instagram users. The research involved 150 female teenagers who were using Instagram recently by using snowball sampling technique. The method that was used in this research is a non-experimental quantitative method. There were two instruments used in the research. Self-esteem was measured by State Self-Esteem Scale and body image was measured by Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire-Appearance Scale. The result showed that there is correlation between self-esteem and body image in female teenager Instagram users, meaning that the research hypothesis is accepted. Furthermore, it was shown that Appearance Evaluation is the body image dimension with highest correlation with self-esteem (r=0.713).

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© 2020, 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  - Maurell Audrey
AU  - Monty Satyadarma
AU  - Untung Subroto
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/12
TI  - The Correlation Between Self-Esteem and Body Image: A Study on Female Adolescent Instagram Users
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 610
EP  - 614
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201209.094
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201209.094
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