The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown Towards Social Media Usage and Body-Esteem among Adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang
Introduction: Social media usage among children and adolescents has increased significantly especially when COVID-19 struck where prolong stay at home increase free time and feeling of boredom. Despite having remote learning, adolescents exposed to social media that commonly have images-related cont...
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Kulliyah of Nursing, IIUM
2022
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/40774/1/The%20Impact%20of%20COVID-19%20Lockdown%20Towards.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/40774/ https://journals.iium.edu.my/ijcs/index.php/ijcs/issue/view/16 |
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| Institution: | Universiti Malaysia Sarawak |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Social media usage among children and adolescents has increased significantly especially when COVID-19 struck where prolong stay at home increase free time and feeling of boredom. Despite having remote learning, adolescents exposed to social media that commonly have images-related content that led to appearance comparisons. Research on social media usage among adolescents and the impact on their body-esteem is sparse.
Objective: This study aimed to determine the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on social media usage and body-esteem and the association between social media usage and body-esteem among adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang.
Methods: A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted among 347 adolescents in Kuantan, Pahang from April to June 2022 through a convenience sampling method. Data were collected by using a Google Forms survey and printed questionnaire that was available in bilingual. Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation test was used for the data analysis using SPSS version 27.
Results: About 37.8% of adolescents stated that they spent more than four hours a day before lockdown and it increases to 48.1% for current use. This indicates a slight increase in social media usage before and after the COVID-19 lockdown. There is no significant association between social media usage and the body-esteem evaluation among adolescents post pandemic.
Conclusion: The adolescents in this study seem to have moderate usage of social media and it does not impact on their body-esteem. This indicates the social media usage insufficiently affect adolescents concerned with their personal appearance and beauty.
Keywords: COVID-19; Lockdown; Social media; Body image; Adolescents. |
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