Different interactions with appearance-focused social media content and adolescents’ body dissatisfaction: A within-person perspective
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Adolescents routinely engage with appearance activity on social media, including browsing and posting images of idealized appearances.
“Adolescents routinely engage with appearance activity on social media (Schreurs & Vandenbosch, 2022), including browsing and posting images of idealized appearances, which are often promoted by “likes” and comments (Zimmer-Gembeck et al., 2021).”
From Navigating Beauty Standards on Social Media: Impact of Appearance Activity on Adolescents’ Body Dissatisfaction (2025) · cites this paper as Schreurs & Vandenbosch, 2022
Other longitudinal research employing the RI-CLPM shows that within-person changes in interactions with appearance content may not consistently relate to later body dissatisfaction in adolescents.
“Nonetheless, these results are in line with other longitudinal research (employing the RI-CLPM as this study did), showing that within-person changes in interactions with appearance content may not consistently relate to later body dissatisfaction in adolescents (Schreurs & Vandenbosch, 2022).”
From Navigating Beauty Standards on Social Media: Impact of Appearance Activity on Adolescents’ Body Dissatisfaction (2025) · cites this paper as Schreurs & Vandenbosch, 2022
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- Authors
- Schreurs, L., & Vandenbosch, L.
- Affiliations
- Research Foundation - Flanders (BE)
- KU Leuven (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Schreurs, Lara
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022-10
- Volume
- 135
- Pages
- 107364
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4283268227
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 6
- FWCI
- 5.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- lirias.kuleuven.be
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- Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
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- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Vlaamse regering (11D3119N)
- Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Keywords
- body dissatisfaction, adolescents, social media use, social media exposure, body image, gender differences, self-affirmation
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