The Relationship Between Instagram Usage & Body Image of Social Media Influencer Followers: Social Comparison as a Mediator

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between intensity of Instagram use and body image concerns. Total of participants 192 early adulthood from Indonesia aged 18-40 years gathered by using snowball sampling and purposive sampling technique. The method that was used in this research is a non-experimental quantitative method. There were three instruments used in this research, there were adapted Facebook Intensity Scale, Physical Appearance Comparison Scale-Revised (PACS-R) has been adapted social media influencer as target, and Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire Appearance Scale (MBSRQ-AS) The result showed that social comparison based appearance mediated relationships between Instagram use and variable related to body image concern this means that the research hypothesis is accepted.