An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period
With the global COVID-19 pandemic, governments from many countries in the world implemented various restrictions to prevent the SARS-Cov-2 virus's spread, including social distancing measures, quarantine, in-home lockdown, and the closure of services and public spaces. This led to an in-creased...
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| author | Cataldo, Ilaria Burkauskas, Julius Dores, Artemisa R. Carvalho, Irene P. Simonato, Pierluigi De Luca, Ilaria Gómez-Martínez, Maria Ángeles Melero-Ventola, Alejandra Rebeca Demetrovics, Zsolt Szabo, Attila Ábel, Krisztina Edina Shibata, Mami Kobayashi, Kei Fujiwara, Hironobu Arroyo-Anlló, Eva Maria Martinotti, Giovanni Barbosa, Fernando Griskova-Bulanova, Inga Pranckeviciene, Aiste Bowden-Jones, Henrietta Esposito, Gianluca Corazza, Ornella |
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| author_facet | School of Social Sciences Cataldo, Ilaria Burkauskas, Julius Dores, Artemisa R. Carvalho, Irene P. Simonato, Pierluigi De Luca, Ilaria Gómez-Martínez, Maria Ángeles Melero-Ventola, Alejandra Rebeca Demetrovics, Zsolt Szabo, Attila Ábel, Krisztina Edina Shibata, Mami Kobayashi, Kei Fujiwara, Hironobu Arroyo-Anlló, Eva Maria Martinotti, Giovanni Barbosa, Fernando Griskova-Bulanova, Inga Pranckeviciene, Aiste Bowden-Jones, Henrietta Esposito, Gianluca Corazza, Ornella |
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| description | With the global COVID-19 pandemic, governments from many countries in the world implemented various restrictions to prevent the SARS-Cov-2 virus's spread, including social distancing measures, quarantine, in-home lockdown, and the closure of services and public spaces. This led to an in-creased use of social media platforms to make people feel more connected, but also to maintain physical activity while self-isolating. Concerns about physical appearance and the desire to keep or reach a muscular and toned ideal body, might have further reinforced the engagement in fitness-related social media activities, like sharing progresses in training achievements or following more fitness contents on popular profiles. To better understand the underlying relation among these factors, the present study investigates 729 responses to the Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI), the Appearance Anxiety Inventory (AAI), the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and their association to social media usage and compares the results cross-culturally in five countries (Spain, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Japan, and Hungary). Findings highlight significant differences between males and females, espe-cially in regard to the time spent online (U = 477.5, p = 0.036). Greater levels of appearance anxiety were associated with the exposure to fitness-related contents on social media. These results strongly confirm the previously highlighted association between fitspiration media and body image anxiety predominantly in females. Clinical implications and future considerations in terms of prevention and treatment in a situation of global emergency are also discussed. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1625602023-03-05T15:31:46Z An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period Cataldo, Ilaria Burkauskas, Julius Dores, Artemisa R. Carvalho, Irene P. Simonato, Pierluigi De Luca, Ilaria Gómez-Martínez, Maria Ángeles Melero-Ventola, Alejandra Rebeca Demetrovics, Zsolt Szabo, Attila Ábel, Krisztina Edina Shibata, Mami Kobayashi, Kei Fujiwara, Hironobu Arroyo-Anlló, Eva Maria Martinotti, Giovanni Barbosa, Fernando Griskova-Bulanova, Inga Pranckeviciene, Aiste Bowden-Jones, Henrietta Esposito, Gianluca Corazza, Ornella School of Social Sciences Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine) Social sciences::Psychology Science::Medicine Covid-19 Fitspiration With the global COVID-19 pandemic, governments from many countries in the world implemented various restrictions to prevent the SARS-Cov-2 virus's spread, including social distancing measures, quarantine, in-home lockdown, and the closure of services and public spaces. This led to an in-creased use of social media platforms to make people feel more connected, but also to maintain physical activity while self-isolating. Concerns about physical appearance and the desire to keep or reach a muscular and toned ideal body, might have further reinforced the engagement in fitness-related social media activities, like sharing progresses in training achievements or following more fitness contents on popular profiles. To better understand the underlying relation among these factors, the present study investigates 729 responses to the Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI), the Appearance Anxiety Inventory (AAI), the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS) and their association to social media usage and compares the results cross-culturally in five countries (Spain, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Japan, and Hungary). Findings highlight significant differences between males and females, espe-cially in regard to the time spent online (U = 477.5, p = 0.036). Greater levels of appearance anxiety were associated with the exposure to fitness-related contents on social media. These results strongly confirm the previously highlighted association between fitspiration media and body image anxiety predominantly in females. Clinical implications and future considerations in terms of prevention and treatment in a situation of global emergency are also discussed. Published version This publication is based upon work from the European Network for Problematic Usage of the Internet, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology; CA16207). This research was also supported by Fundaç ̃ao para a Ciˆencia e Tecnologia (FCT) through R&D Units funding (UIDB/05210/2020). ZD’s contribution was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development, and Innovation Office (KKP126835; K134807; ELTE Thematic Excellence Programme, 2020; KP2020-IKA-05). HF’s contribution was supported by “Grant-in-Aid” by the Smoking Research Foundation. 2022-10-31T01:28:26Z 2022-10-31T01:28:26Z 2022 Journal Article Cataldo, I., Burkauskas, J., Dores, A. R., Carvalho, I. P., Simonato, P., De Luca, I., Gómez-Martínez, M. Á., Melero-Ventola, A. R., Demetrovics, Z., Szabo, A., Ábel, K. E., Shibata, M., Kobayashi, K., Fujiwara, H., Arroyo-Anlló, E. M., Martinotti, G., Barbosa, F., Griskova-Bulanova, I., Pranckeviciene, A., ...Corazza, O. (2022). An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 148, 34-44. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.01.032 0022-3956 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162560 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.01.032 35093805 2-s2.0-85123582428 148 34 44 en Journal of Psychiatric Research © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences::Psychology Science::Medicine Covid-19 Fitspiration Cataldo, Ilaria Burkauskas, Julius Dores, Artemisa R. Carvalho, Irene P. Simonato, Pierluigi De Luca, Ilaria Gómez-Martínez, Maria Ángeles Melero-Ventola, Alejandra Rebeca Demetrovics, Zsolt Szabo, Attila Ábel, Krisztina Edina Shibata, Mami Kobayashi, Kei Fujiwara, Hironobu Arroyo-Anlló, Eva Maria Martinotti, Giovanni Barbosa, Fernando Griskova-Bulanova, Inga Pranckeviciene, Aiste Bowden-Jones, Henrietta Esposito, Gianluca Corazza, Ornella An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period |
| title | An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period |
| title_full | An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period |
| title_fullStr | An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period |
| title_full_unstemmed | An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period |
| title_short | An international cross-sectional investigation on social media, fitspiration content exposure, and related risks during the COVID-19 self-isolation period |
| title_sort | international cross sectional investigation on social media fitspiration content exposure and related risks during the covid 19 self isolation period |
| topic | Social sciences::Psychology Science::Medicine Covid-19 Fitspiration |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162560 |
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