TY - CONF
T1 - Adolescents’ social network site use, appearance training, and body dissatisfaction: Testing a mediation model
AU - de Vries, D.A.
AU - Peter, J.
AU - de Graaf, Hanneke
AU - Nikken, Peter
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Due to their focus on personal photographs and physical appearance, social networksites may encourage and facilitate appearance training among adolescents, that is,influencing each other to conform to sociocultural body ideals. The tripartite influencemodel of body image predicts that receiving appearance training contributes to bodydissatisfaction (Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff-Dunn, 1999). Therefore,social network site use was expected to increase body dissatisfaction throughappearance training. The present two-wave panel study tested these hypothesizedrelationships among 604 Dutch adolescents (aged 11-18) and explored the potentialmoderation of gender. Structural equation modeling showed similar results for boysand girls: Social network site use increased body dissatisfaction and also predictedincreased appearance training. However, appearance training did not predict bodydissatisfaction. The effect of social network site use on body dissatisfaction wasthus not mediated by appearance training
AB - Due to their focus on personal photographs and physical appearance, social networksites may encourage and facilitate appearance training among adolescents, that is,influencing each other to conform to sociocultural body ideals. The tripartite influencemodel of body image predicts that receiving appearance training contributes to bodydissatisfaction (Thompson, Heinberg, Altabe, & Tantleff-Dunn, 1999). Therefore,social network site use was expected to increase body dissatisfaction throughappearance training. The present two-wave panel study tested these hypothesizedrelationships among 604 Dutch adolescents (aged 11-18) and explored the potentialmoderation of gender. Structural equation modeling showed similar results for boysand girls: Social network site use increased body dissatisfaction and also predictedincreased appearance training. However, appearance training did not predict bodydissatisfaction. The effect of social network site use on body dissatisfaction wasthus not mediated by appearance training
M3 - Paper
ER -