#workoutathome: How Instructions in the Captions of Fitfluencers' Posts Impact Adolescents' Body Satisfaction and Intention to Exercise.

IF 3 3区医学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Health Communication Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-03 DOI:10.1080/10410236.2023.2300903

Marloes de Brabandere, Ini Vanwesenbeeck, Liselot Hudders, Verolien Cauberghe

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Abstract

The present study examines how content of fitfluencers can be employed to improve body satisfaction and intention to exercise among adolescents. Specifically, this experimental study (N = 114 adolescents, age: 16-18) compares the effects of fitfluencer content with instructional captions that contain exercise or workout instructions (as a form of edutainment) with those of self-focused fitfluencer captions that emphasize the fitfluencer's appearance. These two types of captions are found to induce no significant differences in either body satisfaction or intention to exercise. In addition, there were no significant indirect effects via state appearance comparison or self-efficacy. The results do show that less state appearance comparisons increase body satisfaction, and that more self-efficacy increases body satisfaction and intention to exercise. The results suggest that instructions in fitfluencer captions do not differ from self-focused captions in their effects on body satisfaction and intention to exercise among adolescents.

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#workoutathome：Fitfluencers 帖子标题中的说明如何影响青少年的身体满意度和锻炼意向。

本研究探讨了如何利用 fitfluencers 的内容来提高青少年对身体的满意度和锻炼意向。具体而言，本实验研究（N = 114 名青少年，年龄：16-18 岁）比较了健身达人内容中包含运动或锻炼指导的说明性标题（作为一种寓教于乐的形式）与强调健身达人外貌的以自我为中心的健身达人标题的效果。结果发现，这两类标题在身体满意度和锻炼意向方面均无显著差异。此外，通过状态外观比较或自我效能感也没有产生明显的间接影响。结果确实表明，较少的状态外观比较会增加身体满意度，而较多的自我效能感会增加身体满意度和锻炼意向。结果表明，在对青少年的身体满意度和锻炼意向的影响方面，fitfluencer 标题中的说明与以自我为中心的标题并无不同。

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Health Communication Multiple-

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8.20

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10.30%

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184

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