Comparing and modeling via social media: The social influences of fitspiration on male instagram users’ work out intention

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Highlights:

• The viewer's motivation, post-viewing emotion and self-efficacy define fitspiration.

• Upward comparisons with attractive models motivate self-improvement via workouts.

• Self-improvement motives and self-efficacy positively predict work out intention.

• Model attractiveness has a direct but negative effect on work out intention.

• Post-viewing emotion mitigates the negative impact of model attractiveness.

摘要

•The viewer's motivation, post-viewing emotion and self-efficacy define fitspiration.•Upward comparisons with attractive models motivate self-improvement via workouts.•Self-improvement motives and self-efficacy positively predict work out intention.•Model attractiveness has a direct but negative effect on work out intention.•Post-viewing emotion mitigates the negative impact of model attractiveness.

论文关键词:Fitspiration,Social comparison,Self-improvement,Social cognitive theory,Self-efficacy,Model attractiveness

论文评审过程:Received 3 January 2019, Revised 7 May 2019, Accepted 8 May 2019, Available online 10 May 2019, Version of Record 26 May 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.05.011