APS

29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Does Ethnicity Matter?: Facebook’s Effect on Body Esteem

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Clinical Science

  • Cassidy Miles
    Appalachian State University
  • Shilpa Regan
    The University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Abstract

Social media use has been linked to body image disturbances among women. It was predicted that the ethnicity and size of women on social media and the viewer’s ethnicity would mediate the extent of the disturbance. However, there was not a significant interaction among these three factors.

Cross-Cultural or Ethnic Studies

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