Influence of social media addiction and body image perception on self-esteem among university students
Keywords:
self-esteem, body image perception, social media addictionAbstract
Influence of young adults on social media and body image perception and how it affects self-esteem was analyzed. The social media has proven to be the strongest contributor to sociocultural ideas about physical dissatisfaction, and therefore unhappiness, low self-esteem, and physical ideals, height, and weight associated with eating disorders. A total of 100 people participated in the study, 50 of whom were male and 50 of whom werefemale .A relatively positive correlation between social media addiction and self-esteem was found in the analysis. Which depicted a change of result from most of the previous research that the self-esteem of the person increases with the increase of use of social media. As well as a positive relationship in self-esteem and body image was found.
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