Fear the Instagram: beauty stereotypes, body image and Instagram use in a sample of male and female adolescents
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Recent literature has proposed the term “digitized dysmorphia” to define the gap between social media digitalized beauty standards and females body image, suggesting that apps as Instagram, have contributed to the increase of dysmorphic disorders in young women. In the present paper, it’s analyzed the relationship between the use of Instagram, the internalization of beauty standards, the social pressure to adhere to them, and the anxiety towards body image, in a sample of high schools’ students (N= 621,aged 13 to 21, 61% females) in Italy. Results suggest that adolescents who edit their pictures, and then upload them online, have interiorized more the stereotype of beauty proposed by Instagram and feel more anxious and uncomfortable with their body image, feeling more pressure to uphold to the social media standards. These results apply not only to female adolescents, as seen in previous studies, but also males. Social and clinical issues are discussed.
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Five studies highlighted that high-risk individuals with elevated eating disorder scores or a pre-existing eating disorder are more inclined to seek out damaging content on social media, may be more susceptible to mediating factors, and are thus at heightened risk of further clinical / subclinical eating disorders.
“Five studies highlighted that high-risk individuals with elevated eating disorder scores or a pre-existing eating disorder are more inclined to seek out damaging content on social media (such as thinspiration or weight loss). They may be more susceptible to mediating factors (internalisation and comparison) and are thus at heightened risk of further clinical / subclinical eating disorders [78, 80,”
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredFrequent use of beauty filters has already been found to lead to anxiety and depression, reduced self-esteem, body dysmorphia, an increase of plastic surgery, feelings of inadequacy and increased pressure to conform to unrealistic beauty standards.
“Frequent use of beauty filters has already been found to lead to anxiety and depression, reduced self-esteem, body dysmorphia, an increase of plastic surgery, feelings of inadequacy and increased pressure to conform to unrealistic beauty standards [47,50,52,96,99–102].”
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The Discussion (page unavailable) reports that adolescents who post edited pictures show more body-related anxiety and dissatisfaction and feel more pressure to meet Instagram beauty standards. The paper does not establish that frequent beauty-filter use causes these outcomes, and it does not link such use to plastic surgery; its mentions of depression, self-esteem, and dysmorphia concern broader Instagram use or beauty standards rather than that specific behavior. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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- Authors
- Verrastro, V., Fontanesi, L., Liga, F., Cuzzocrea, F., & Gugliandolo, M. C.
- Affiliations
- University of Messina (IT)
- University of Chieti-Pescara (IT)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Qwerty. Open and Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology, Culture and Education
- Publisher
- Progedit - Progetti Editoriali srl
- Published
- 2020-06
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 1828-7344 (ISSN-L)
- 2240-2950
- OpenAlex
- W3026688624
- Cited by
- 78
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 4.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Locations
- Qwerty (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Keywords
- Instagram, beauty stereotypes, body image, social media use, adolescents, gender differences, image editing, body image anxiety, social pressure
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