APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Does Ethnicity Matter?: Facebook’s Effect on Body Esteem
- 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