An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period

• Main Authors: Cataldo, Ilaria, Burkauskas, Julius, Dores, Artemisa R., Carvalho, Irene P., Simonato, Pierluigi, De Luca, Ilaria, Gómez-Martínez, Maria Ángeles, Melero-Ventola, Alejandra Rebeca, Demetrovics, Zsolt, Szabo, Attila, Ábel, Krisztina Edina, Shibata, Mami, Kobayashi, Kei, Fujiwara, Hironobu, Arroyo-Anlló, Eva Maria, Martinotti, Giovanni, Barbosa, Fernando, Griskova-Bulanova, Inga, Pranckeviciene, Aiste, Bowden-Jones, Henrietta, Esposito, Gianluca, Corazza, Ornella
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Science::Medicine; Covid-19; Fitspiration
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162560
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the global COVID-19 pandemic, governments from many countries in the world implemented various restrictions to prevent the SARS-Cov-2 virus's spread, including social distancing measures, quarantine, in-home lockdown, and the closure of services and public spaces. This led to an in-creased...