Institut für Sportwissenschaft, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Neubiberg, Germany.
Institut für Kreislaufforschung und Sportmedizin, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, Cologne, Germany.
BMC Psychol. 2022 Dec 27;10(1):320. doi: 10.1186/s40359-022-01027-9.
Following and posting sport-related content on social media is wide-spread among young people. To date, little is known about the interdependence between sport-related social media use and the thereby perceived personal body image.
We conducted an online survey (N = 285) to examine how social media influences the sport-related body image.
In general, social media are frequently used for sport (n = 136, 47.7%). Resistance training correlated significantly with several motives of sport-related use of social media, and thus, represents the strong online presence of athletic sports. Less correlations could be found in team or other sports. Regarding the perception of body image, it was found that the group of rejecting (negative) body image significantly correlated with the emulation of social media mediated sport-related beauty and body ideals (r = 0.63, p = 0.001), as well as with increased body dissatisfaction when viewing sport-related posts on social media (r = 0.590, p = 0.001). Perceived social pressure and comparison were found to be mediators of the prevailing influence of social media usage.
These results reveal the importance of taking a closer look at socially shaped beauty and body ideals, especially in sport-related contents, striving for more educational campaigns such as Body Positivity and, above all, filtering information. Finally, future research is needed to gain deeper insight into young persons' usage behavior of social media and its impact on the individual's body image. Trial Registration The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approved by the Ethics Committee of University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany (01/24/2022).
在社交媒体上关注和发布与运动相关的内容在年轻人中很普遍。迄今为止，人们对与运动相关的社交媒体使用与由此产生的个人身体形象之间的相互依赖关系知之甚少。
我们进行了一项在线调查（N=285），以研究社交媒体如何影响与运动相关的身体形象。
总的来说，社交媒体经常被用于运动（n=136，47.7%）。阻力训练与社交媒体上与运动相关的使用的几个动机显著相关，因此代表了竞技运动的强大在线存在。在团队或其他运动中，相关性较小。关于身体形象的感知，发现拒绝（负面）身体形象的群体与社交媒体介导的运动相关的美丽和身体理想的模仿显著相关（r=0.63，p=0.001），以及在社交媒体上查看与运动相关的帖子时，身体不满增加（r=0.590，p=0.001）。发现感知到的社会压力和比较是社交媒体使用的主要影响的中介。
这些结果揭示了密切关注社会塑造的美丽和身体理想的重要性，特别是在与运动相关的内容中，努力开展更多的教育活动，如身体积极性，最重要的是过滤信息。最后，需要进行未来的研究，以更深入地了解年轻人对社交媒体的使用行为及其对个人身体形象的影响。
该研究是根据赫尔辛基宣言的指导原则进行的，并得到了德国联邦武装部队慕尼黑大学伦理委员会的批准（2022 年 1 月 24 日）。
