Facebook can have a positive or negative effect on womens’ body image
Despite studies suggesting that social media contributes to a poor body image for women, college women who are more emotionally invested in Facebook and have lots of Facebook friends are less concerned with body size and shape and less likely to engage in risky dieting behaviors. But that’s only if they aren’t using Facebook to compare their bodies to their friends’ bodies, according to the authors of a surprising new study at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. In the study, 128 college-aged women completed an online survey with questions designed to measure their disordered eating. The...
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