Your fitness-sharing is a reminder for my poor body: how fitness posts exposure on social media harms female body esteem
Fitness posts exposure produces a negative influence on female body esteem via the mediation of body surveillance, and this pattern is more obvious among women with high appearance contingent self-worth. Appearance-relevant content involved in fitness posts, rather than pure fitness performance, harms female body esteem.
Authors
- Yu Fu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8878-3131)
- Shuqing Wang
- Caroline S.L. Tan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3191-1531)
- Jun Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4560-6623)
- Xiumei Yan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1917-2148)
Institutions
- University of Jinan (CN)
- Shanghai Xiandai Architectural Design (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Published
- 2025-03-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1515575
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.61