The Impact of Social Media on Body Image Anxiety Among Females

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220704.130How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social media; Body image anxiety; Thin ideal; Body dissatisfaction

Abstract

Entering the digital era, social media has become the omnipresent way of transmitting distorted body standards especially targets on young females. The failure to meet these unrealistic standards leads to body image anxiety. Existing studies considered the erosion of self-esteem had led to weight stigmatization, social comparison, and body image concerns. This article concisely illuminates the mechanism of social media-related body image anxiety and explains how they are more closely intertwined than the general public is aware of. The main purpose of this article is to encourage young females to understand and reject unrealistic societal beauty ideals trending on social media platforms, and hopefully to raise awareness of mitigating body image anxiety for both genders.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anqi Ling
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - The Impact of Social Media on Body Image Anxiety Among Females
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 716
EP  - 720
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.130
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.130
ID  - Ling2022
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