The Impact of Social Media on Chinese High School Students' Body and Image Anxiety

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The Impact of Social Media on Chinese High School Students' Body and Image Anxiety

Xinqi Lin 1*
  • 1 Xuecheng International Education School, Shanghai, 200000, China    
  • *corresponding author 2547667015@qq.com
Published on 1 March 2023 | https://doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/2/2022470
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ISBN (Print): 978-1-915371-07-2
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Abstract

This paper focuses on the impact of social media on the body and image anxiety of Chinese high school students. It identified that the impact of social media on the physical and image anxiety of Chinese high school students is significantly different in terms of gender, grade, origin and time. The impact of social media on the physical and image anxiety of Chinese female high school students is higher than that of Chinese male senior high school students. The impact of social media on the physical and image anxiety of high school students in China's first and second tier cities is higher than that of senior high school students in China's third and fourth tier cities, etc. Families and schools should strengthen the correct consciousness and aesthetics of senior high school students, and the society should also establish a social media intervention mechanism.

Keywords:

Body and image anxiety, Chinese high school students, Solution., Social media

Lin,X. (2023). The Impact of Social Media on Chinese High School Students' Body and Image Anxiety. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,2,301-308.
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Lin,X. (2023). The Impact of Social Media on Chinese High School Students' Body and Image Anxiety. Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media,2,301-308.

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References

[1]. Grogan, S. (2016). Body image. Routledge. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315681528

[2]. Hosseini, S. A., & Padhy, R. K. (2021, September 9). Body image distortion. NCBI Bookshelf. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK546582/

[3]. Charmaraman, L., Richer, A. M., Liu, C., Lynch, A. D., & Moreno, M. A. (2021). Early adolescent social media-related body dissatisfaction: Associations with depressive symptoms, social anxiety, peers, and celebrities. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics : JDBP, 42(5), 401–407. https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0000000000000911

[4]. Yang, H., Wang, J. J., Tng, G. Y. Q., & Yang, S. (2020). Effects of social media and smartphone use on body esteem in female adolescents: Testing a cognitive and affective model. Children, 7(9), 148. https://doi.org/10.3390/children7090148

[5]. Jankauskiene, R., & Baceviciene, M. (2019). body and image concerns and body weight overestimation do not promote healthy behaviour: Evidence from adolescents in lithuania. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(5), 864. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16050864

[6]. Kleemans, M., Daalmans, S., Carbaat, I., & Anschütz, D. (2016). Picture Perfect: The direct effect of manipulated instagram photos on body and image in adolescent girls. Media Psychology, 21(1), 93–110. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2016.1257392

[7]. rownell, C. A., Zerwas, S., & Ramani, G. B. (2007). So big: The development of body self-awareness in toddlers. Child Development, 78(5), 1426-1440. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01075.x

[8]. Rousseau, A., Laporte, H., Grundmann, F., & Eggermont, S. (2020). The role of pubertal timing and heterosocial involvement in early adolescents’ media internalization: A moderated moderation analysis. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 40(8), 1167-1194. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431619899473

[9]. Choukas-Bradley, S., Nesi, J., Widman, L., & Galla, B. M. (2020). The Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale: Development and validation with adolescents. body and image, 33, 164–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.02.017

[10]. Vries, de, Peter, Graaf, de, & Nikken. (2015). Adolescents’ social network site use, peer appearance-related feedback, and body dissatisfaction: Testing a mediation model. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45(1), 211–224. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-015-0266-4

[11]. Hicks, S., & Brown, A. (2016). Higher facebook use predicts greater body and image dissatisfaction during pregnancy: The role of self-comparison. Midwifery, 40, 132-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.midw.2016.06.018

[12]. Choukas-Bradley, S., Nesi, J., Widman, L., & Galla, B. M. (2020). The Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale: Development and validation with adolescents. body and image, 33, 164–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.02.017

[13]. Mills, J. S., Musto, S., Williams, L., & Tiggemann, M. (2018). “Selfie” harm: Effects on mood and body and image in young women. body and image, 27, 86-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.08.007

[14]. Prichard, I., McLachlan, A. C., Lavis, T., & Tiggemann, M. (2017;2018;). The impact of different forms of #fitspiration imagery on body and image, mood, and self-objectification among young women. Sex Roles, 78(11-12), 789-798. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0830-3

[15]. van den Brink, F., Smeets, M. A. M., Hessen, D. J., & Woertman, L. (2015;2016;). Positive body and image and sexual functioning in dutch female university students: The role of adult romantic attachment. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45(5), 1217-1226. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0511-7

[16]. Erliksson, O. J., Lindner, P., & Mörtberg, E. (2020). Measuring associations between social anxiety and use of different types of social media using the swedish social anxiety scale for social media users: A psychometric evaluation and cross‐sectional study. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 61(6), 819-826. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12673

[17]. Boursier, V., Gioia, F., & Griffiths, M. D. (2020). Do selfie-expectancies and social appearance anxiety predict adolescents’ problematic social media use? Computers in Human Behavior, 110, 106395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2020.106395

[18]. Meshi, D., & Ellithorpe, M. E. (2021). Problematic social media use and social support received in real-life versus on social media: Associations with depression, anxiety and social isolation. Addictive Behaviors, 119, 106949-106949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106949

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