APPEAR, Department of Applied Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, USA; Department of Psychiatric Emergency & Acute Care, Lapeyronie Hospital, CHRU Montpellier, France.
APPEAR, Department of Applied Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
Body Image. 2021 Dec;39:156-165. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.08.001. Epub 2021 Aug 26.
Research has shown that social media content that has not been digitally altered may help support positive body image. However, the effects of adding labels to such images has received little research attention. This study compared the effects of selfies that were: edited, unedited, and unedited + labeled. A sample of 350 young women, mean age (SD) = 21.87 (2.28) years, were randomly allocated to one of three conditions and completed pre and post exposure measures of state body image and mood, as well as trait risk and protective factors. Findings revealed that participants allocated to the unedited + labeled condition reported greater increases in state appearance satisfaction as compared to those who viewed the edited selfies. In addition, participants with higher levels of social media literacy benefited most from the unedited + labeled selfies. Findings suggest that selfies bearing a label indicating that they have not been edited may be more helpful for body image among young women as comapred to edited selfies. Thus, labels could represent useful social marketing tools on social media and contribute to efforts to increase the realism of social media imagery.
研究表明，未经过数字编辑的社交媒体内容可能有助于支持积极的身体形象。然而，对于给这类图片添加标签的影响，研究关注甚少。本研究比较了三种自拍照的效果：编辑过的、未编辑过的和未编辑+加标签的。一项由 350 名年轻女性组成的样本（平均年龄（标准差）= 21.87（2.28）岁）被随机分配到三个条件中的一个，并在暴露于照片前后完成了状态身体形象和情绪以及特质风险和保护因素的测量。研究结果显示，与观看编辑过的自拍照的参与者相比，被分配到未编辑+加标签条件的参与者报告了更大的状态外貌满意度的增加。此外，社交媒体素养水平较高的参与者从未编辑+加标签的自拍照中获益最大。研究结果表明，与编辑过的自拍照相比，带有未经过编辑标签的自拍照可能对年轻女性的身体形象更有帮助。因此，标签可以成为社交媒体上有用的社会营销工具，并有助于提高社交媒体图像的真实性。
