Relational Body Identities: Body Image Control Through Self-Portraits – A Revision of the Body Image Control in Photos Questionnaire
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Self-portrayal is one of the most popular online activities, especially among adolescents and young adults. The selfie-craze explosion through photo-sharing represent a new task for adolescents' researchers, but few instruments explore how adolescents can control their body image through self-portraits. One of these is the body image control in photos questionnaire. The aim of this chapter is to develop and validate a revised short version of the BICPQ, administered to 1220 Italian adolescents. The establishment of a cut-off procedure is proposed for screening purposes to identify at-risk and problematic users. Moreover, differences by gender and age are explored and discussed.
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Body image-related activities and strategies of self-presentation (such as appearance monitoring) might lead to problematic SNS use.
“Finally, body image-related activities and strategies of self-presentation (such as appearance monitoring) might lead to problematic SNS use (Boursier & Manna, 2019; Boursier et al., 2020a; Cohen et al., 2018).”
From Adolescents’ Body Shame and Social Networking Sites: The Mediating Effect of Body Image Control in Photos (2020) · cites this paper as Boursier & Manna, 2019
SNS users, especially adolescents, might invest in photo-related control and activities, trying to show and share on SNS their ideal self-image as well as becoming more worried about their appearance and body image, picture quality, and strategies to taking, choosing, and editing their shared photos online.
“Consequently, SNS users, especially adolescents, might invest in photo-related control and activities, trying to show and share on SNS their ideal self-image (McLean et al. 2015) as well as becoming more worried about their appearance and body image, picture quality, and strategies to taking, choosing, and editing their shared photos online (Boursier & Manna, 2019; Manago et al., 2015; McLean et”
From Adolescents’ Body Shame and Social Networking Sites: The Mediating Effect of Body Image Control in Photos (2020) · cites this paper as Boursier & Manna, 2019
The present study confirmed a main condition of risk among female adolescents in photo management and control online and offline.
“Concurring with Boursier and Manna (2019), the present study confirmed a main condition of risk among female adolescents in photo management and control online and offline.”
From Adolescents’ Body Shame and Social Networking Sites: The Mediating Effect of Body Image Control in Photos (2020) · cites this paper as Boursier and Manna (2019)
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- Authors
- Boursier, V., & Manna, V.
- Affiliations
- University of Naples Federico II (IT)
- Association for Social Promotion Roots in Action, Italy
- ORCID
- Boursier, Valentina
- Venue
- Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology
- Publisher
- IGI Global
- Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 40-63
- ISSN
- 2328-1316 (ISSN-L)
- 2328-1324
- OpenAlex
- W2887300743
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 51
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4
- FWCI
- 6.99
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Advances in human and social aspects of technology book series (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Keywords
- self-representation, selfies, adolescents, young adults, questionnaire validation, short version, gender differences, age differences, image sharing
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