Effects of social media and smartphone use on body esteem in female adolescents: Testing a cognitive and affective model

• Main Authors: YANG, Hwajin, WANG, Jiaqi Joy, TNG, Yue Qi Germaine, YANG, Sujin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: social media and smartphone use; body esteem; internalization; social comparison; social appearance anxiety; Gender and Sexuality; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3236; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4493/viewcontent/2020children_07_00148YangetalBodyesteem_pvoa.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examined the predictive relations of social media and smartphone use to body esteem in female adolescents and the mechanism that underlies these relations. As a result of frequent social media and smartphone use, adolescents are continually exposed to appearance-related media content. This likely...