Is body image related to problematic social network use in adolescence?
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The use of social media by adolescents may influence their body self-image. The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship
between problematic use of social media and body image in a representative sample of Spanish adolescents. For this purpose, the Body Image Scale C and the Questionnaire of problematic use of social networks were administered to a sample of 1164 students of Secondary Education (M=14.56 years; SD=1.40). The results showed that
problematic use of social media is positively and significantly related to the difference between body image and real body image. Furthermore, it was found that those adolescents with high problematic social media use, compared to the medium and low use group, had a greater difference between how they saw themselves physically and how they wished their body to be. In this sense, the likelihood of having high problematic social network use was 1.17 times higher as the difference between actual and ideal body image increased by one unit. These findings should be considered in order to promote positive and adjusted body image and prevent problematic social
media use in adolescents.
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