Jasmine Fardouly|Phillippa C. Diedrichs|Lenny R. Vartanian|Emma Halliwell
Social comparisons on social media: The impact of Facebook on young women's body image concerns and mood
UNSW Sydney|University of the West of England|UNSW Sydney|University of the West of England
present study experimentally investigated effect facebook usage womens mood body image whether effects differ online fashion magazine whether appearance comparison tendency moderates effects female participants n 112 randomly assigned spend 10 min browsing facebook account magazine website appearanceneutral control website completing state measures mood body dissatisfaction appearance discrepancies weightrelated face hair skinrelated participants also completed trait measure appearance comparison tendency participants spent time facebook reported negative mood spent time control website furthermore women high appearance comparison tendency reported facial hair skinrelated discrepancies facebook exposure exposure control website given popularity research needed better understand impact facebook appearance concerns