Social comparison and its impacts on social media and body satisfaction

16 March 2023

This study is for my dissertation project focusing on social comparison and the effects that social media has on body image, eating behaviours and pressures for an idealised body. The survey will last 5-10 minutes, all data will be anonymous, it is asked that you answer as truthfully as possible.

Keywords

• Robert Gordon University
• social comparison
• Social comparisons
• body image dissatisfaction
• psychology
• social media
• media pressure
• Ideal body image
• Ideal body stereotype
• Eating Behaiours
• Eating Attitudes

Ethical approval

This study was approved by the ethics panel at Robert Gordon University on the 9th of December 2022

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