Make women feel Facebook is bad about her body?
By Brenda GoodmanHealthDay reporter
Thursday, 10 April 2014 HealthDay News)-too much time on Facebook a toll on a young woman takes sense of self esteem, especially how she feels about her body, a new study suggests.
881 female college students surveyed in the study. They were asked, to their Facebook use questions within the past month, how often she visit the site, how long they spent as a rule there and what were their favorite activities.
One question, for example asked the women, "(Wenn man ein fremdes Fotos auf Facebook, wie viel Aufmerksamkeit bezahlen Sie auf: 1) (how they dress and 2) your body?"
The women were asked about their eating habits and body image, as well as her current weight, ideal weight and class rank.
The average weight of the women in the study was 149 pounds, but most wanted about 20 pounds less weight. On average, they bound their ideal weight at about 130 pounds.
Most spent about 80 minutes on Facebook every day. The most popular activities were read the news feed and look at pictures, according to the study.
Spend more time on Facebook involved a much higher probability that a woman over her own body would feel bad, the study found. It was tied to greater opportunities, that they to compare with others.
This was particularly, if she they needed feeling, to lose weight, the researchers noted.
However, women felt to win or maintain their weight the social networking site not bad wanted about themselves even after the registration.
While the study found an association between Facebook use and poor body image, it is supposed to prove a cause effect relationship.
The research was be presented Thursday at the annual Conference of the international communication Association in Seattle. Research should be viewed as preliminary meetings as long as not published in a peer-reviewed journal.
"Women tend to their ideal self on Facebook, not necessarily their actual, true self, present", said study author Petya Eckler, who is a Professor of journalism at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
Eckler said many Photoshop their images before the book, or they use an app like SkinneePix, which claims to shave pounds from a Selfie.
Women compared to this idealized photos come away feeling inferior, mentioned Eckler, added that she does worry that it could cause young women for an eating disorder.
"Feeling negative comparison is so to speak the first step to the disordered eating itself and increased body. Not in everyone, but this is definitely one of the phases go women through, "she said.
This study found a link between Facebook use and full-blown eating disorders, but previous studies have detected some worrying trends.
In a study Smith published in the Journal of affective disorders, April last year, Assistant Professor of psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and her team examined 232 College women and followed them for 30 days to see whether their Facebook use felt influenced how they over her body.
"We see a rise in eating disorders, not per se, but we saw an increase in body image dissatisfaction and disorderly behavior, eating," Smith said.
Smith's study found that predicted the frequency of certain types of behaviors on Facebook, whether food addiction a month later the women involved episodes.
"It's really social analysis or negative social evaluations to seek a tendency or engage in many social comparisons," said Smith.
She said posting negative status updates like "Oh, I only my psycho test bombed" or "I can't believe I ate the whole bag of M & MS" are testing your friends see how they will react.
The social aspect of the comparison is when women of other people status updates read and be influenced by these updates.
"For example you know your friend wants a party that have not invited you, or a job you have applied, and this kind of upward comparisons have the tendency, feel bad about themselves," explains Smith.
Another study found that, "be removed in photos that hold little flattering" also could suffer from women who tend to poor body image. So-called "Tags" used to people standing in photos on Facebook, to identify by name.
"I think it of really important for young people to try to be scrupulous about their motivations for using Facebook-their motivations for posting updates and pictures, and also how they feel after using Facebook,", Smith said.
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Sources: Petya Eckler, Ph.d., Professor of journalism, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland; April Smith, Ph.d., Assistant Professor, psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; April 10, 2014, presentation, international communication Association annual Conference, Seattle
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