APPEAR, Department of Applied Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, USA; Department of Psychiatric Emergency & Acute Care, Lapeyronie Hospital, CHRU Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
APPEAR, Department of Applied Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
Eat Behav. 2024 Apr;53:101867. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2024.101867. Epub 2024 Mar 3.
The use of photo-based social media has been associated with body image concerns among young women. Women in midlife are increasingly experiencing appearance pressures, and these pressures might be particularly strong on social media. However, to date, most of the research on social media use has focused on younger women, and this constitutes an important gap. The purpose of this study was therefore to examine a model of the relationships among social media use and body image among women aged 40 and over. A convenience sample of 192 women aged 40-73 years completed an online survey assessing selfie investment, social media appearance pressures, thin-ideal internalization, appearance comparison, weight and shape concerns, facial satisfaction, drive for youthfulness and drive for muscularity. The final sociocultural model was a good fit to the data, and thin-ideal internalization and appearance comparisons mediated the pathways between the social media variables and the body image ones.
社交媒体的使用与年轻女性的身体意象问题有关。中年女性越来越多地面临外貌压力，而这些压力在社交媒体上可能尤为强烈。然而，迄今为止，大多数关于社交媒体使用的研究都集中在年轻女性身上，这是一个重要的空白。因此，本研究的目的是检验一个 40 岁及以上女性社交媒体使用与身体意象之间关系的模型。192 名年龄在 40-73 岁的女性参加了一项在线调查，评估了自拍投资、社交媒体外貌压力、理想化体型内化、外貌比较、体重和体型担忧、面部满意度、年轻感驱动力和肌肉感驱动力。最终的社会文化模型与数据拟合良好，理想化体型内化和外貌比较在社交媒体变量和身体意象变量之间的路径中起中介作用。
