The Ohio State University, United States.
The Ohio State University, United States.
Body Image. 2018 Dec;27:118-127. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2018.08.013. Epub 2018 Sep 19.
This experiment examined how features of images shared on social media sites, such as Instagram, impact and are evaluated by young adult female users. Specifically, we examined conditions under which female viewers (N = 360, M = 20.34, SD = 2.74) were more or less likely to internalize the thin ideal after viewing other women's selfies (i.e., images taken of oneself by oneself) posted on Instagram that depicted the thin ideal. We also examined how female viewers evaluated women who posted these selfies. Results indicated that the more female viewers believed that the women digitally modified or altered their selfies, the less likely viewers were to internalize the thin ideal. In addition, the more female viewers believed the women digitally modified their selfies and the more they believed the women were their offline peers (vs. models), the more negatively (e.g., less intelligent, less honest) they evaluated the women. Explanations for why awareness of photo modification and different image sources (peers vs. models) influence evaluations of selfies are discussed.
本实验考察了社交媒体网站（如 Instagram）上分享的图片特征如何影响和被年轻成年女性用户评价。具体而言，我们考察了女性观众（N=360，M=20.34，SD=2.74）在观看 Instagram 上发布的描绘理想身材的女性自拍照（即自拍）后内化理想身材的可能性更大或更小的条件。我们还考察了女性观众如何评价发布这些自拍照的女性。结果表明，女性观众越相信女性对自拍照进行了数字修饰或改变，观众内化理想身材的可能性就越低。此外，女性观众越相信女性对自拍照进行了数字修饰，越相信这些女性是自己的线下同龄人（而非模特），她们对这些女性的评价就越负面（例如，认为她们不聪明、不诚实）。讨论了为什么对照片修饰的认识以及不同的图像来源（同龄人对比模特）会影响对自拍照的评价。
