Fear the Instagram: beauty stereotypes, body image and Instagram use in a sample of male and female adolescents

IF 0.4 Q4 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS

Qwerty Pub Date : 2020-05-15 DOI:10.30557/qw000021

V. Verrastro, L. Fontanesi, F. Liga, F. Cuzzocrea, M. C. Gugliandolo

引用次数: 20

Abstract

Recent literature has proposed the term “digitized dysmorphia” to define the gap between social media digitalized beauty standards and females body image, suggesting that apps as Instagram, have contributed to the increase of dysmorphic disorders in young women. In the present paper, it’s analyzed the relationship between the use of Instagram, the internalization of beauty standards, the social pressure to adhere to them, and the anxiety towards body image, in a sample of high schools’ students (N= 621,aged 13 to 21, 61% females) in Italy. Results suggest that adolescents who edit their pictures, and then upload them online, have interiorized more the stereotype of beauty proposed by Instagram and feel more anxious and uncomfortable with their body image, feeling more pressure to uphold to the social media standards. These results apply not only to female adolescents, as seen in previous studies, but also males. Social and clinical issues are discussed.

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对Instagram的恐惧:对男性和女性青少年的美貌刻板印象、身体形象和Instagram的使用

最近的文献提出了“数字化畸形”一词来定义社交媒体数字化审美标准与女性身体形象之间的差距，这表明Instagram等应用程序导致了年轻女性畸形障碍的增加。在这篇论文中，我们分析了Instagram的使用，美的标准的内化，坚持这些标准的社会压力，以及对身体形象的焦虑之间的关系，在一个13到21岁的意大利高中生样本中(N= 621, 61%是女性)。研究结果表明，编辑自己的照片并将其上传到网上的青少年，更内化了Instagram所提出的对美的刻板印象，对自己的身体形象感到更焦虑和不舒服，感受到更大的压力来坚持社交媒体的标准。这些结果不仅适用于女性青少年，就像之前的研究中看到的那样，也适用于男性。讨论社会和临床问题。

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Qwerty COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS-

CiteScore

2.40

自引率

15.40%

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