Social Media Use and Body Checking Behaviors: The Roles of Stress, Emotional Eating, and Self-Esteem.
= 0.011) independently predicted higher body checking scores, explaining 31.7 percent of the variance. These findings indicate that interventions focusing on media literacy and the management of stress and emotional eating may help mitigate the adverse effects of SM on body image and body-checking behaviors.
Authors
- Mariam Hakim
- Aya Korkomaz
- Nadine Zeeni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1747-6016)
- Sophia Jamal
Institutions
- Lebanese American University (LB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PubMed
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/21522715261430510
- Primary Topic
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00