Social Media Use and Body Checking Behaviors: The Roles of Stress, Emotional Eating, and Self-Esteem.

Key Points

• The aim is to explore the relationship between social media use and body checking behaviors, focusing on stress, emotional eating, and self-esteem.
• Analyzed the impact of social media use on body checking behaviors
• Examined the roles of stress, emotional eating, and self-esteem in this context
• Explored potential interventions to mitigate negative effects.
• Higher stress and emotional eating were linked to increased body checking behaviors, accounting for 31.7% of the variance.
• Interventions focusing on media literacy effectively reduced body checking scores.
• Improving self-esteem may also contribute to lower body checking behaviors.