A Call To Action

As families and individuals make choices about social media, it is of critical importance that they be armed with up-to-date information about the impact of such behavior on health and well-being.
For parents, this research adds to the growing body of cautionary information and is a call to get educated and manage social media immersion.
For healthcare providers, assessing patients for social media use is a key element of treatment planning.

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Social Media and Stress Related Disorders

Another study looked at how physical health may be affected by the stress associated with social media use.

They found that greater social media use was associated with increased somatic symptoms, regardless of depression sym...

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Comparing Ourselves With Instagram Influencers

Researchers looked at whether the coherence of sense of self, known as “self-concept clarity”, influenced social media users to compare themselves with online depictions of idealized slender bodies.

Participants with lower ...

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Key Takeaways

Social media use is on the rise, with over 70 percent of Americans regularly online.
Social media and dating apps are potentially harmful to users, both emotionally and physically.
Researchers have found negative effects on body image, eating behavior, mood, and physical heal...

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Social Media And Body Dissatisfaction

Researchers in a study have found that increased social media use predicted body dissatisfaction one year later, and body dissatisfaction also predicted greater social media use, with a small but significant effect size. There were differences between men and women: Social media use and body diss...

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Dating Apps And Eating Behaviour

Another study focused on how women’s dating app use affected daily mood, body image, and eating behavior. Participants showed a correlation between lifetime dating app use and both disordered eating urges and negative mood. Neither idealized partner preference nor rejection sensitivity were corre...

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The Bottom Line

There's no denying that social media and all the other promises of evolving information technology and machine learning hold great potential to improve quality of life, but ...

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Social Media Is A Mirror

Social media has become a mirror through which we catch a glimpse of ourselves, literally through selfies and photos taken by others, and through how we react to one another, through our experience of online connectedness both on major social media platforms as well as through dating apps and liv...

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