Social Media Effects on Young Women’s Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research

By R. Perloff. 2014

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The Selfie Generation: Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Early Adolescent Body Image (2019, background): “Often, research on body image focuses on the body image concerns of girls, assuming that boys are less impacted by cultural standards of attractiveness (Perloff, 2014).”
#SocialMedia: Exploring the Relationship of Social Networking Sites on Body Image, Self-Esteem, and Eating Disorders (2017, methodology): “An interesting model, presented by Perloff (2014) and further discussed by Turner (2014), should be incorporated into future research as it describes a transactional process to which social media effects YA women.”
Habits and the electronic herd: The psychology behind social media’s successes and failures (2020, background): “Such comparisons can yield negative effects, as for example social media with idealized images of lifestyles and body types exacerbate body image issues and low self-esteem among young women (Perloff, 2014).”
Pinterest or Thinterest?: Social Comparison and Body Image on Social Media (2016, background): “Perloff (2014) theorized that many body dissatisfaction effects found with traditional media would likely transfer to social media contexts.”
Introducing the Social Media Literacy (SMILE) model with the case of the positivity bias on social media (2020, background): “Regarding these peculiarities, social media content is much more personal and selffocused than traditional media content (Perloff, 2014).”
When media become the mirror: a meta-analysis on media and body image (2020, background): “In this sense, social media provides a new arena for studying peer comparison, which differs from the comparison between oneself to characters in television shows or models in fashion magazines (Perloff, 2014).”
Facebook is Linked to Body Dissatisfaction: Comparing Users and Non-Users (2015, background): “However, research examining possible changes that the use of this new media may cause in people’s body image remains scarce (Perloff 2014).”
Weight status and body image perceptions in adolescents: current perspectives (2015, unknown): “Perloff 11 cautions that such social media interventions should be systematic, grounded in theory, tailored to the unique needs of the intended audience, and empirically evaluated.”