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The problem
Intervention: This is an observational study examining the associations between social media/smartphone use patterns and body esteem; no intervention was tested
Who it was tested with: Female adolescents aged 13-18 (N=100) from Singapore and South Korea.
Experience from people who deliver programmes: stories, case studies and lessons learned. Valuable for understanding how and why, and for spotting what to test next, but not a measure of effect.
"we found that excessive social media use leads to unhealthy body esteem via intensified cognitive internalization, which aggravates appearance comparisons and anxiety regarding negative appearance evaluation." The study tested correlational associations between digital media use and body esteem outcomes through a theorized mediation pathway, measuring multiple variables in a single timepoint.
Cross-sectional design prevents causal inference; small sample size (N=100); limited to two Asian countries; only female adolescents studied; no comparison or control group; reliance on self-report measures
Across countries and designs
13 studies · 11 countries
