Social media's effects on adolescent girls' body image
Social media can have derogatory effects on mental health, particularly on how adolescent girls view their bodies. A study conducted in the UK revealed that 1/3 of teenagers surveyed felt shame in relation to their body image [1] . Similarly, a study conducted of teenagers felt ashamed in relation to their body image.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.626763/full - "However, the extent to which social media influences body dissatisfaction is debated and the evidence is inconsistent; some studies find associations between social media use and body dissatisfaction (Fardouly et al., 2017; Scully et al., 2020), others find that social media use is associated with positive body image (Cohen et al., 2019), some observe no direct relationships (Ferguson et al., 2014; Cohen et al., 2017) and others suggest that social media may indirectly influence body dissatisfaction by increasing opportunities for other predictors of body dissatisfaction such as peer competition (Ferguson et al., 2014)."
https://bmcwomenshealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12905-022-01845-4