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- Title
Empleo de redes sociales e internalización del ideal de delgadez en mujeres adolescentes.
- Authors
VERÓNICA LOSADA, ANALÍA; STAMATIOU, SOFIA; VICTORIA POTES, MICAELA
- Abstract
The study examines the relationship between the internalization of the thin ideal and the frequency of exposure to social networks in adolescent females between 16 and 19 years old, living in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is an empirical study with a cross-sectional quantitative approach and correlational scope, which used the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) and the Cuestionario de frecuencia del uso de redes sociales. As a hypothesis, it is proposed that adolescent women show high use of social networks, at the same time presenting high levels of internalization of the thin ideal and the existence of a significant relationship between the frequency of use of social networks and the internalization of the thin ideal. The mean use of social networks by adolescent women correlates positively with the information and general internalizing domains of the SATAQ-3. Usage is significantly, positively, low and moderately associated with reaching millions of users with the message of the thin sociocultural ideal. A relationship can be concluded between the internalization of the thin ideal and the use of social networks in adolescent women. The greater the exposure to social network content, the greater the internalization of sociocultural attitudes about appearance. Further research is recommended to use more instruments that assess body image dissatisfaction, body surveillance, body control behaviors and objectification.
- Subjects
BUENOS Aires (Argentina); TEENAGE girls; BODY image; METROPOLITAN areas; INTERNALIZATION (Social psychology); TEENAGERS; SOCIAL networks; EMPIRICAL research; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Psicoespacios, 2022, Vol 16, Issue 28, p1
- ISSN
2145-2776
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25057/21452776.1454