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The Role of Social Media in Internalizing Body Knowledge—A Cross-Sectional Study among Women with Different Food Preferences
Virtual spaces, such as social media, give people a platform to exchange their opinions, experiences, and knowledge. Social media’s ubiquitous usefulness has led to people relying, in whole or in part, on the information they learn online. As a result, a person’s perception of his or her own body an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915421/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767433 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032069 |
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author | Krupa-Kotara, Karolina Grajek, Mateusz Rozmiarek, Mateusz Malchrowicz-Mośko, Ewa Staśkiewicz, Wiktoria León-Guereño, Patxi Aguirre-Betolaza, Aitor Martínez Castañeda-Babarro, Arkaitz |
author_facet | Krupa-Kotara, Karolina Grajek, Mateusz Rozmiarek, Mateusz Malchrowicz-Mośko, Ewa Staśkiewicz, Wiktoria León-Guereño, Patxi Aguirre-Betolaza, Aitor Martínez Castañeda-Babarro, Arkaitz |
author_sort | Krupa-Kotara, Karolina |
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description | Virtual spaces, such as social media, give people a platform to exchange their opinions, experiences, and knowledge. Social media’s ubiquitous usefulness has led to people relying, in whole or in part, on the information they learn online. As a result, a person’s perception of his or her own body and their self-worth has started to be influenced by what other people think of them and by the information found on social media. Modern people’s lifestyle, particularly their eating habits and exercise habits, exhibits a similar tendency. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationships occurring between factors related to the use and internalization of body image knowledge contained in social media and the factors shaping self-assessment and self-esteem in women following a vegetarian diet. An authority-validated questionnaire was used to determine the level of use and attitudes of respondents toward social media, e.g., SATAQ and BES. Associations about the potential negative impacts of the knowledge provided by social media on the development of body image and self-esteem were shown. It is interesting to observe that women who practice vegetarianism have less pressure on their appearance. This may be because vegetarianism is a lifestyle that is currently actively promoted online. Education is required on the connection between the use and internalization of social media knowledge and the development of healthy self-esteem and body evaluation. |
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spelling | pubmed-99154212023-02-11 The Role of Social Media in Internalizing Body Knowledge—A Cross-Sectional Study among Women with Different Food Preferences Krupa-Kotara, Karolina Grajek, Mateusz Rozmiarek, Mateusz Malchrowicz-Mośko, Ewa Staśkiewicz, Wiktoria León-Guereño, Patxi Aguirre-Betolaza, Aitor Martínez Castañeda-Babarro, Arkaitz Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Virtual spaces, such as social media, give people a platform to exchange their opinions, experiences, and knowledge. Social media’s ubiquitous usefulness has led to people relying, in whole or in part, on the information they learn online. As a result, a person’s perception of his or her own body and their self-worth has started to be influenced by what other people think of them and by the information found on social media. Modern people’s lifestyle, particularly their eating habits and exercise habits, exhibits a similar tendency. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationships occurring between factors related to the use and internalization of body image knowledge contained in social media and the factors shaping self-assessment and self-esteem in women following a vegetarian diet. An authority-validated questionnaire was used to determine the level of use and attitudes of respondents toward social media, e.g., SATAQ and BES. Associations about the potential negative impacts of the knowledge provided by social media on the development of body image and self-esteem were shown. It is interesting to observe that women who practice vegetarianism have less pressure on their appearance. This may be because vegetarianism is a lifestyle that is currently actively promoted online. Education is required on the connection between the use and internalization of social media knowledge and the development of healthy self-esteem and body evaluation. MDPI 2023-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9915421/ /pubmed/36767433 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032069 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Krupa-Kotara, Karolina Grajek, Mateusz Rozmiarek, Mateusz Malchrowicz-Mośko, Ewa Staśkiewicz, Wiktoria León-Guereño, Patxi Aguirre-Betolaza, Aitor Martínez Castañeda-Babarro, Arkaitz The Role of Social Media in Internalizing Body Knowledge—A Cross-Sectional Study among Women with Different Food Preferences |
title | The Role of Social Media in Internalizing Body Knowledge—A Cross-Sectional Study among Women with Different Food Preferences |
title_full | The Role of Social Media in Internalizing Body Knowledge—A Cross-Sectional Study among Women with Different Food Preferences |
title_fullStr | The Role of Social Media in Internalizing Body Knowledge—A Cross-Sectional Study among Women with Different Food Preferences |
title_full_unstemmed | The Role of Social Media in Internalizing Body Knowledge—A Cross-Sectional Study among Women with Different Food Preferences |
title_short | The Role of Social Media in Internalizing Body Knowledge—A Cross-Sectional Study among Women with Different Food Preferences |
title_sort | role of social media in internalizing body knowledge—a cross-sectional study among women with different food preferences |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9915421/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36767433 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032069 |
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