Social Media Appearance Pressures, Body Image Concerns, and Harmful Self-Objectification Processes

The objective of this paper is to systematically review images on social media depicting unrealistic beauty ideals. The findings and analyses highlight that social media appearance pressures and esteem configure thin-ideal internalization and body comparison. Throughout January 2022, a quantitative...

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Published inJournal of research in gender studies Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 24 - 38
Main Author Rice, Linda
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Addleton Academic Publishers 01.01.2022
Subjects
Algorithms
Ambiguity
Analysis
Attitudes
Beauty
Bibliometrics
Body dysmorphic disorder
Body image
Consciousness
Cosmetic surgery
Decision making
Eating disorders
Editing
Gender Studies
Health and medicine and law
Human body
Internalization
Layout
Literature reviews
Mapping
Mass media images
Media studies
Perceptions
Personal appearance
Plastic surgery
Quality assessment
Self awareness
Self esteem
Self image
Selfobjects
Social media
Social networks
Systematic review
Visualization
negative appearance evaluation
social media photo manipulation
idealized body image
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Summary:The objective of this paper is to systematically review images on social media depicting unrealistic beauty ideals. The findings and analyses highlight that social media appearance pressures and esteem configure thin-ideal internalization and body comparison. Throughout January 2022, a quantitative literature review of the Web of Science, Scopus, and ProQuest databases was performed, with search terms including “social media appearance pressures” + “body image concerns,” “harmful self-objectification processes,” and “negative appearance evaluations.” As research published between 2021 and 2022 was inspected, only 137 articles satisfied the eligibility criteria. By taking out controversial or ambiguous findings (insufficient/irrelevant data), outcomes unsubstantiated by replication, too general material, or studies with nearly identical titles, I selected 25 mainly empirical sources. Data visualization tools: Dimensions (bibliometric mapping) and VOSviewer (layout algorithms). Reporting quality assessment tool: PRISMA. Methodological quality assessment tools include: AMSTAR, Dedoose, Distiller SR, and SRDR.
ISSN:2164-0262
2378-3524
DOI:10.22381/JRGS12120222