The influence of selfie related behavior in social media on body image

Subjects: Psychology >> Social Psychology submitted time 2021-02-11

顾潇 王玉慧 雷雳

Abstract： Social media has now become a part of our life, in which selfie is a common information oriented by appearance on social media. It is found that the selfie-related behavior is closely related to the user's body image. The selfie-related behaviors on social media include selfie investment, selfie manipulation, selfie posting, selfie viewing, selfie feedback investment. Since individuals are both publishers and receivers of information on social media, selfie investment, selfie manipulation and selfie posting can be regarded as publisher's initiative selfie behavior, while selfie viewing and selfie feedback investment fall into the category of receiver's reactive selfie behavior. Meanwhile, how selfie related behavior affects body image can be analyzed from two perspectives of initiative and reactive behavior. The process of effect can be divided into body surveillance, standard internalization and appearance comparison. And then the factors in individual, interpersonal and environmental aspects may affect the relations between selfie-related behavior and body image as well as the process of effect. The research in future can be adopted to further explore how selfie-related behavior affects body image by enriching subject sampling, optimizing research design, studying other selfie behavior, paying attention to moderating variables and environmental variables, and discuss the process of self-construction in cyberspace from a theoretical perspective. "

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