Media
A form of media such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
What is social media?
The state of being male or female
What is gender?
How old a person is
What is age ?
According to the article about facebook use and body image in college women, __________ is valued more than health
What is appearance ?
The quality or state of being fit
What is fitness?
A form of media such as news papers, magazines, movies, news, etc.
What is media?
Amount of female participants in the adolescent survey
what is 6 female participants ?
The mean age of the participants in the adult survey
What is 27.58 years of age ?
Before social media was present adults in the survey said this, along with body image, affected their fitness goals
what is sports?
of the 12 adult participants 5 said seeing pictures of this inspired them to get into fitness
What are fit individuals ?
Social media platform most used by adults in the survey
What is facebook ?
Name of the first author thats article was titled "Facebook Use and Negative Body Image among U.S. College Women"
Who is Eckler ?
The age range of students surveyed in the article about social comparison theory
what is 12-14 years of age ?
Theory that discusses the comparison of one person to another, and how it affects their perception of themselves
What is social comparison theory?
A person defining themselves as being active for 30min-hr for most days during the week, for the purpose of the survey.
What is very active ?
Amount of adult participants thats fitness was NOT affected by social media
what is 9 out of 12 adults ?
Gender that is perceived to be affected by social media more when it comes to body image and fitness goals
what is female ?
The mean age of participants in the adolescent survey
What is 16 years of age ?
Group surveyed that had a greater percentage of respondents saying that body image was the main influence for their fitness goals
What is the adolescent survey ?
7 participants in the adult survey based their fitness goals off of this
what is health?
Percentage of adult participants that had snapchat?
26%
In the article "Social Comparison and Body Image in Adolescence" which gender mentioned that girls were always concerned about their appearance?
What is male ?
What drove participants in the adult survey to fitness before social media was prevalent
What is sports and body image ?
the mental image of ones own body
what is body image ?
6 of 8 of the adolescent participants said this affects their fitness goals most
what is body image ?