Highly-visual social media and internalizing symptoms in adolescence: The mediating role of body image concerns

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Highlights：

• Highly-visual social media, such as Instagram and Snapchat, are popular in adolescence.

• We investigated use of highly-visual social media (HVSM) in adolescents.

• Use of HVSM was more frequent than the use of Facebook.

• Frequent use of HVSM was related to body image concerns and internalizing symptoms.

• Body imaged concerns mediated the link between HVSM and internalizing symptoms.

摘要

•Highly-visual social media, such as Instagram and Snapchat, are popular in adolescence.•We investigated use of highly-visual social media (HVSM) in adolescents.•Use of HVSM was more frequent than the use of Facebook.•Frequent use of HVSM was related to body image concerns and internalizing symptoms.•Body imaged concerns mediated the link between HVSM and internalizing symptoms.

论文关键词：Social media,Mental health,Adolescents,Body image concern,Internalizing symptoms,Facebook

论文评审过程：Received 15 September 2017, Revised 29 December 2017, Accepted 3 January 2018, Available online 3 January 2018, Version of Record 8 January 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.01.003