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Social Media and Its Influence on Body Shape Satisfaction

Bingyu Yang

Abstract

In the past studies, researchers have shown that people’s body shape satisfaction would be reduced by exposure to social media on thin and beautiful body figures or strong and muscular body figures. Using a posttest-only control group experimental design, the degree of influence of social media on body image satisfaction of 43 college students was examined. The results showed that in this experiment, while both male experimental group, female experimental group, and control groups perceived the intervention differently, there was a significant difference in the degree of media influence and body self-satisfaction among groups. The results of this experiment implicate the importance that should be given to and the educational measures that need to be taken regarding the impact of body image on women.

Keywords

Social Media Exposure Effects; Body Shape Satisfaction; Intervention

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18686/mcs.v4i3.1484

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