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"Selfie harm: Effects on mood and body image in young women. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1740144517305326
Our first blog post focused on the digital literacy aspect of social media. Learning how to be more conscious of fake information. In this post I want to turn to the psychological impact that social media is especially having on young women.
Read up to 1.2 from the link above (Read the Abstract, Introduction, Social Media and body image and Self-presentation and impression management). It's a comprehensive study on the impact selfie's have on our self esteem and how we view ourselves.
Why is it so hard to discipline ourselves around our devices? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkvTRz_Alo
Important terms:
Narcissim is defined as: extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type.
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families that plays several important roles in the brain and body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine
Please answer the following for your post:
1) Application: Site one sentence including the author(s) that impacted you most and why. Copy and paste the sentence into the post and discuss.
2) Analysis: Compare and contrast your own experience and your experience with your peers on social media. For example: Do you know of someone who shares too much online and complains of being depressed?
3) Evaluation: Take the Narcissism Personality Test and discuss your results. Report your "score" and the results of the facets. https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/NPI - Was it an accurate representation of yourself?
Here's my results: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/NPI/results.php?r=10,5,1,1,0,0,2,1
Our first blog post focused on the digital literacy aspect of social media. Learning how to be more conscious of fake information. In this post I want to turn to the psychological impact that social media is especially having on young women.
Read up to 1.2 from the link above (Read the Abstract, Introduction, Social Media and body image and Self-presentation and impression management). It's a comprehensive study on the impact selfie's have on our self esteem and how we view ourselves.
Why is it so hard to discipline ourselves around our devices? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgkvTRz_Alo
Important terms:
Narcissim is defined as: extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type.
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families that plays several important roles in the brain and body. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine
Please answer the following for your post:
1) Application: Site one sentence including the author(s) that impacted you most and why. Copy and paste the sentence into the post and discuss.
2) Analysis: Compare and contrast your own experience and your experience with your peers on social media. For example: Do you know of someone who shares too much online and complains of being depressed?
3) Evaluation: Take the Narcissism Personality Test and discuss your results. Report your "score" and the results of the facets. https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/NPI - Was it an accurate representation of yourself?
Here's my results: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/NPI/results.php?r=10,5,1,1,0,0,2,1
One sentence that really stuck out to me was: “... social media has been found to be a significant catalyst for these appearance concerns [for females] (Brown & Tiggemann, 2016; Holland & Tiggemann, 2016; Tiggemann & Miller, 2010).” It stuck out because I see a lot of my female friends scrolling through multiple pictures before deciding on which one is perfect for Instagram. I don’t think I have a single friend, female or male, that thinks they're attractive. We all have massive insecurities about our appearance due to being bombarded with these ‘perfect’ people on Instagram and other social media sites. In 2017 the top 10 most followed accounts were all attractive celebrities, people like Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, and Kim Kardashian West. So many people compare themselves to these unrealistic standards of beauty. Many of these accounts have makeup and stylist teams behind most of the shots, not to mention the positions these women contourt themselves into. I have two cousins on my father’s side of the family who have amazing Instagram accounts. They have a theme, flawless pictures of them at museums, laughing, or on the beach. If you went off these pictures one would assume their lives are interesting and full adventure. The truth is quite the opposite. The younger of the two is a rich bored little girl with nothing better on her hands but to complain and whine and massive insecurity over her appearance. The older one, who is my age, lives in a resort town which is practically empty when it's not summer. Everything is shut down and you need a car to get anywhere. However, by looking at their carefully constructed Instagram accounts you would not think this. Increasingly, I am finding my friends taking ‘breaks’ from social media or deleting their social media all together. One friend has barely any social media, the only real way to get in contact with her is through her number. I used to have two different Instagram accounts but now I have one were I go months without posting.
ReplyDeleteOn the personality test I got a 13 out of 40 with my highest percentage being in the authority and superiority sectors.
Great work Cris. Social media has morphed into a giant PR machine for the self with very few people publishing how they really feel. Interesting stats on celebrity/social media accounts. I wonder how many people realize that most celebrities have armies of professionals doing makeup, photography and social media for them. It's ridiculous to even try to compete.
Delete1… Studies have found that frequent exposure to the Internet and social networking websites results in high levels of weight dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and body surveillance in young women (Tiggemann & Miller, 2010; Tiggemann & Slater, 2013), regardless of race (Howard, Heron, MacIntyre, Myers, & Everhart, 2017).
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting because it does seem true. When you look at someone pretty many people always say that they should be an “instagram model” because they have a picture perfect image. We are surrounded by people with great bodies and stuff that it makes us more insecure.
2. Celebrities are a prime example of people who put up picture perfect images on instagram that make s think that their lives are fantastic. For example, demi Lavato had many picture posted of her and it made many of us think her life was amazing while she was suffering from addiction.
3. My score is 20, out of 40. Higher scores indicate greater levels of narcissism.
https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/NPI/results.php?r=20,5,5,3,1,2,3,1
It was somewhat accurate of who I am.
Excellent Lulu. Great example of how we make such assumption of how happy people are based upon celebrity status and social media. The real story is far more nuanced.
Delete1. "women who have relatively higher levels of thin ideal internalization, perfectionism, and/or low self-esteem would be especially likely to spend time on appearance-focused online comparisons and that they probably do not use ‘self-protective’ downward appearance comparisons." this is interesting to me because it is so true. Women and girl look at other females body's and judge there own.
ReplyDelete2. my experience with social media is probably the same as everyone else's. i just watch funny memes all day and chill. my friends do the same as me yet i know some of them look at models body's and talk down about there body's just because they don't look like a model.
3. my score is a 9 out of 40. i feel it does represent me.
Good Amanda. Knowledge of how our viewing habits are informing our opinions can hopefully help us to change our habits or limit them in scope. Be careful of grammar. Capitalize, etc.
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ReplyDeleteStudies have found that frequent exposure to the Internet and social networking websites results in high levels of weight dissatisfaction, drive for thinness, and body surveillance in young women (Tiggemann & Miller, 2010; Tiggemann & Slater, 2013), regardless of race (Howard, Heron, MacIntyre, Myers, & Everhart, 2017). This sentence impacted me the most, because I’m somebody who is present on all social media platforms all day. Also, there was a time in my life when I was very insecure about my appearance because, idealistic women on social media corrupted me into thinking that I wasn’t good enough. The studies are valid.
I personally love social media. I post once in awhile, but I don’t post about my whole life. However, I do know somebody who posts about every little thing that happens in their life. Some people need to be more private when sharing on public platforms.
On the Narcissism Personality Test, my score was 25 out of 40. My score was higher than 87.8 of the sample. My highest percentage was in the exhibitionism sector. I think it’s pretty accurate unfortunately.
Great work Arianna. A little insight into ourselves can go a long way.
Delete“Selfies” (self-taken photos) are a common self-presentation strategy on social media. This sentence is extremely important to our society considering we are self consumed in appearance. I do care a lot about my appearance on social media which has impacted my life negatively. It is not easy to go on social media and feel good about yourself when these applications are filled with photo shopped women. My score was a 22 out of 40 and I do feel this is an accurate representation of myself.
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