Despite adolescents' prolific use of social media, relationships between social media and
body satisfaction and well-being are not yet well understood, especially among boys. This …

Cross-sectional research suggests a small, inverse association between social media use
and body satisfaction. However, less is known regarding prospective, bidirectional, or …

Adolescents are spending considerable time on social media, yet it is unclear whether
motivations for social media use drive different forms of social media engagement, and their …

Social media use has often been linked to adolescents' body dissatisfaction, but longitudinal
investigations of this relation are scarce. This three-wave panel study among N= 1032 …

Social media use and exposure, in particular to highly visual and appearance-focused
content, has shown a relationship with poorer body image with small to moderate effect …

Internalisation of appearance ideals moderates the relationship between exposure to media
images and body dissatisfaction. To date, the role of thin-and muscular-ideal internalisation …

Introduction: Adolescents' engagement with online social networking platforms is advancing
at an exponential rate and research is needed to investigate any impact on young users' …

Although scholars continue to debate the influence of social media on body image,
increased social media use, especially engaging in appearance-related behaviors may be a …

We examined the predictive relations of social media and smartphone use to body esteem in
female adolescents and the mechanism that underlies these relations. As a result of frequent …

There is increasing scholarly interest in the effects of social media use on women's body
image. Here, we tested the utility of the Tripartite Influence Model–developed for traditional …