This review presents recent trends in social media and body image research, with a
particular focus on different social media platforms, features unique to social media, and …

Sharing and viewing photos on social networking sites (SNSs) have been identified as
particularly problematic for body image. Although correlational research to date has …

This article presents four meta-analyses that can inform causality in the relationship between
social media and body image; 24 experimental samples comparing the effect of appearance …

In this theoretical review paper, we provide a developmental–sociocultural framework for the
role of social media (SM) in adolescent girls' body image concerns, and in turn, depressive …

Social media have become a major part of contemporary life. They are also a potent source
of idealized and unrealistic imagery. Contributing to the lack of realism is the ability to …

The aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of different types of TikTok dance
challenge videos on young women's body satisfaction. Study 1 involved 262 women aged …

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 …

Instagram is a visually centered social media that involves the presence of sexualized
imagery posted by users. Such Instagram sexualization may have a negative impact on …

Objective: According to sociocultural theory, media is associated with detrimental effects on
body image. Due to the popularity of social networking sites (SNS) and the prevalence of …

Social media use is consistently associated with more negative body image, but much of this
literature is cross-sectional and/or lacks ecological validity. To overcome these limitations …