A Potential Cause and Treatment of Eating Disorder--Social Media

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10.2991/assehr.k.220704.080How to use a DOI?

Keywords

eating disorder(ED); social media; middle childhood; early adult; literature review

Abstract

The present review paper examined literature related to eating disorder (ED) (dependent variable), and social media (independent variable) among both teenagers with ED and without this disorder from middle childhood (12 years old) to early adults (18 years old). The research topic--“did social media bring teenagers a negative influence of experiencing eating disorder” was inspired by a real case of a 14-year-old middle school girl that she was examined as anorexia eating disorder by psychiatrist since she used to believe she was too fat and eat few things everyday although her exact weight was under the normal weight. Also, the doctors suggested the reason she experienced this disorder is that she cared too much about the negative comments of her posts about her body figures on the social media. The present study reviewed eight articles in order to find the exact negative influence of social media on teenagers, especially in the field of ED.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nancy Yi Qi Chen
AU  - Shiqi Ren
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/07/11
TI  - A Potential Cause and Treatment of Eating Disorder--Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 433
EP  - 436
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220704.080
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220704.080
ID  - Chen2022
ER  -