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Sociala medier -­ Ett osunt samhällsfenomen: En kvantitativ sociologisk studie om Facebook och Instagrams exponering på kvinnors kroppsuppfattning
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences.
Södertörn University, School of Social Sciences.
2017 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

The aim of this study is to examine if social media has a negative impact on how womenperceive their own body image. The study was conducted by a quantitative survey usingquestionnaires to examine the various factors that affect the perceived body image. Such ashow women socially compare themselves with others or how satisfied they are with theirbody depending on how much time they spend on social media. We will also investigate ifwomen’s perceived body image is consistent with the their actual body based upon theirBMI. The sample for the study consisted of 159 women who are members of a specificFacebook group. The material was analyzed with support from Festinger’s theory of socialcomparison and Cooley’s glass-self theory among others. The results show that high use ofsocial media affects women’s satisfaction with how they look negatively compared withthose who use social media to a low degree. It also shows that women who spend a lot oftime on social media tend to compare themselves with other more widely and tend to beunhappier with their body. On the other hand, we could not see any correlation between theuse of social media and women’s perception of their actual body.

Abstract [sv]

Syftet med studien är att undersöka om sociala medier har en negativ påverkan på hurkvinnor uppfattar sin egen kroppsbild. Studien genomfördes av en kvantitativ undersökningmed hjälp av enkäter för att undersöka de olika faktorerna som påverkar den uppfattadekroppsbilden. Såsom hur kvinnor jämför sig med andra eller hur nöjda de är med sin kroppberoende på hur mycket tid de spenderar på sociala medier. Vi kommer likaså undersöka omkvinnors uppfattade kroppsbild överensstämmer med deras faktiska kropp baserat på derasBMI. Urvalet för studien bestod av 159 kvinnor som är medlemmar i facebookgruppen Pinkroom. Materialet analyserades med bland annat stöd av Festingers teori om social jämförelseoch Cooleys teori om spegeljaget. Resultaten visar att vid hög användning av sociala medierpåverkas kvinnornas tillfredsställelse med kroppen i jämförelse med dem som användersociala medier i liten utsträckning. Det visar också att kvinnor som spenderar mycket tid påsociala medier tenderar att jämföra sig med andra i större utsträckning och att dem tenderaratt vara mer missnöjda med sin kropp.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2017. , p. [8], 54
Keywords [en]
Social media, body image, social comparison, skewed body image
Keywords [sv]
Sociala medier, kroppsuppfattning, social jämförelse, skev kroppsuppfattning
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34258OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-34258DiVA, id: diva2:1175103
Subject / course
Sociologi
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
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Available from: 2018-01-19 Created: 2018-01-17 Last updated: 2018-01-19Bibliographically approved

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