A new study that links specific Facebook activities, but not overall Facebook use to body dissatisfaction and a drive for thinness in teen girls is published in\u00a0Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking<\/i><\/a>, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,\u00a0publishers<\/a>. The article is available free on the\u00a0Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking<\/i><\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n In the article “Facebook Photo Activity Associated with Body Image Disturbance in Adolescent Girls<\/a>,” Evelyn Meier and James Gray, PhD, American University, Washington, DC, present the details of a study that identified an association between Facebook time spent on photo activity and poor body image among adolescent girls who internalize a thin ideal physique<\/strong>. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for eating disorder prevention programs and understanding the impact of social networking sites.<\/p>\n “Given the connection between eating disorders and body image distortion and dissatisfaction, it is important to identify contributing factors in this particularly vulnerable group<\/strong>,” says Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCIA, Editor-in-Chief ofCyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking<\/i>, from the Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, CA. “By identifying these factors, we can move towards designing more effective prevention programs.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.\/Genetic Engineering News media release: “Appearance exposure” on the Internet has been linked to body image disturbance among adolescent girls. A new study that links… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[353,5,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15949,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions\/15949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"body](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mirror_dysmorphia.jpg\")
<\/a>“Appearance exposure” on the Internet has been linked to body image disturbance among adolescent girls<\/strong>.<\/p>\n