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23 lut 2023 · Teens and young adults who reduced their social media use by 50% for just a few weeks saw significant improvement in how they felt about both their weight and their overall appearance compared with peers who maintained consistent levels of social media use.
27 cze 2022 · However, research has largely reported adverse influences from adolescents’ social media use, contributing to mental health difficulties including increased depression, anxiety, and self-harm behaviors, decreased socio-emotional wellbeing, low self-esteem and negative body image [7, 8, 9, 10].
Many of us suspect that the beautiful, often highly-edited images of people we see on social media make us feel worse about our own bodies. But what does the research say?
17 lip 2024 · First, I discuss key theoretical perspectives regarding developmental and sociocultural influences on adolescents’ body image. Next, I introduce the “perfect storm” framework, a developmental–sociocultural framework for social media’s role in adolescents’ body image and mental health.
20 maj 2021 · Adolescents reported that they were prolific, habitual users of social media, showing preferences for appearance focused platforms; adolescents, especially girls explicitly reported that they felt social media exerted a mostly negative influence on their body image.
26 lut 2023 · New research found teens and young adults who even briefly cut time on social media gained self esteem. Try these 5 tips to help them — and yourself — improve screen-life balance.
