Yan Desheng, Li Guangming
Inner Mongolia Minzu Preschool Education College, Ordos, China.
Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences (South China Normal University), Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, China.
Front Public Health. 2025 Jun 11;13:1594396. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1594396. eCollection 2025.
There is a large population of social internet users who habitually retouch photos. These behaviors may be harmful, as some studies have shown that photo retouching behaviors may result in the potential risk of dependency and some addiction-like symptoms. Specifically, chronic photo retouching behaviors of social internet users can lead to negative emotions, low satisfaction with appearance, and non-essential cosmetic surgery. Severe cases may suffer from "Snapchat dysmorphia" which could become a form of body dysmorphic disorder. In this paper, the photo retouching addiction scale (PRAS) was developed as a psychometric instrument to measure the degree of photo retouching addiction for social internet users. Through a cross-sectional study, the social appearance anxiety scale (SAAS) was combined with the PRAS to investigate whether the relationship exists between photo retouching addiction and social appearance anxiety. Results show that: (1) The developed PRAS includes five dimensions and has good reliability and validity (Cronbach's Alpha = 0.862; χ/ = 1.511, CFI = 0.975, TLI = 0.968, RMSEA = 0.041, SRMR = 0.031); (2) The photo retouching addiction is significantly positively correlated with social appearance anxiety; (3) Sex, age, and marital status of social internet users have a significant impact between photo retouching addiction and social appearance anxiety.
有大量经常修图的社交网络用户群体。这些行为可能是有害的，因为一些研究表明，修图行为可能会导致产生依赖的潜在风险以及一些类似成瘾的症状。具体而言，社交网络用户长期的修图行为会导致负面情绪、对外表的低满意度以及不必要的整容手术。严重的情况可能会患上“阅后即焚畸形症”，这可能会成为身体变形障碍的一种形式。在本文中，修图成瘾量表（PRAS）被开发为一种心理测量工具，用于测量社交网络用户的修图成瘾程度。通过一项横断面研究，将社交外表焦虑量表（SAAS）与PRAS相结合，以调查修图成瘾与社交外表焦虑之间是否存在关联。结果表明：（1）所开发的PRAS包括五个维度，具有良好的信效度（克朗巴哈系数α = 0.862；χ/ = 1.511，CFI = 0.975，TLI = 0.968，RMSEA = 0.041，SRMR = 0.031）；（2）修图成瘾与社交外表焦虑显著正相关；（3）社交网络用户的性别、年龄和婚姻状况在修图成瘾与社交外表焦虑之间存在显著影响。
