The impact of social media contributes to individuals comparing their body image with those of others. People are surrounded by images that emphasise thinness for women, and muscularity/leanness for men. Past research has found that women who engage in comparisons through social media sites experience more appearance and body dissatisfaction. However, recent research has found that this dissatisfaction is not just limited to women. Men also experience body dissatisfaction as a result of comparisons through social media sites. Design a study to test the idea that appearance comparison on social media will be related to body dissatisfaction in either men or women. How do your proposed findings have an application to the real world? Be sure to develop a study that is ethically feasible. Abstract: - Eating disorder highly prevalent and increasing amongst women especially. (Fardouly & Vartanian, 2015) This study examines … tested whether xyx will happen … hypothesis Results would show… hypothesis Introduction: -Malaysian obesity fact -as a result, unhealthy eating habits develop. What they are + symptoms. -the concern from health care systems is based on the fact that these severe mental disorders usually put in danger the well-being and health of the people who suffer them (Plateau et al., 2018) -other than psychobiological factors, cultural and social factors influence this disordered eating behaviours. advertising has been described as an internalizing or normalizing means to spread unrealistic beauty ideals. Therefore, a higher incidence of these diseases is presented in advanced and modern societies and people with the best living conditions, mostly caused by the popularization of thin and muscular ideals (Calado et al., 2010). -According to the sociocultural model, adolescents receive messages about what their bodies should look like from different sources, such as their parents, peers, and the media, which is what we look into today. -these comments make people inherently internalise what an ideal body should be like. -If adolescents internalize these appearance ideals as the standards for their own body, they will compare their body against these ideals. When their appearance does not match the internalized ideals this will result in body dissatisfaction (Thompson et al., 1998) -Body concerns usually maintain over time and increase body dissatisfaction. This body dissatisfaction emerges because of the distortion on the body image, its perception and, therefore, body concern (Cohen et al., 2017) -This dissatisfaction also plays an essential role in disordered eating attitudes since it provokes emotional and psychological distress (Hoare et al., 2019) -women more into it -why does this gender difference exist. Materials: -DEQ only to assess the existence of an eating disorder so that we can match the participants according to severity of the symptoms to avoid any confounding variable that contradicts the findings and the validity of the research. Such as the existence of an eating disorder either genetically or for any reason as the pre-existence would entail that social media had no part to play in the increase or maintenance of it. several biological factors have been linked to disordered eating attitudes, with up to 50% of disordered eating being described as familiarly transmitted (Rodgers et al., 2009) Adolescents who spend more than 3 hours per day on social media may be at heightened risk for mental health problems, particularly internalizing problems. (Riehm et al., 2019) + A 1998 study in the journal CyberPsychology and Behavior found heavy internet use—defined as 38 hours or more of non-work, non-school online activity—was associated with “significant social, psychological, and occupational impairments.” The study authors wrote that such use “caused detrimental effects such as poor grade performance among students, discord among couples, and reduced work performance among employees.” (Young & Rogers, 1998) Hence, participants will be asked for their weekly screen times deception will be that experiment to see what apps teenagers use most. to assess their social media usage which will determine the fact that they frequently are exposed to social media and its environment around body dissatisfaction Procedure: Word to word: ". In order to match the participants based on the severity of the symptoms and prevent any confounding variables that would undermine the validity of the study and the findings, we must first determine whether an eating disorder exists. For instance, if an eating issue was genetically predisposed or developed for any other cause, social media would not have contributed to its development or maintenance and would call into question the research's reliability and validity because up to 50% of disordered eating is thought to be passed on through familiar relationships, according to research linking a number of biological markers to these views (Rodgers et al., 2009) This additional form of content indicator also maintains the variable's anonymity in research so that participants won't learn exactly what is being examined and to avoid demand characteristics. Limitation: In phase 3, they could have pre-exisiting dissatisfaction also.
