PSYCHOSOCIAL CORRELATES OF PROFILE PICTURES EDITING AND PERCEIVED SELF-IMAGE, BODY SATISFACTION AMONG SOCIAL MEDIA CONSUMERS

Abstract

This study entails the notion of studying the psychosocial correlates of variations and modifications that social media users tend to carry out at the time of uploading and sharing their profile pictures. The In literature review researcher discuses the descriptive account of the academic current state of affairs with regard to the social networking profile picture uploaded by an individual being online. The study is important because it inspects one of the crucial imperative involving individual’s psyches behind changing and choosing variety of profile pies and in order to present them online. Researcher observes the psychosocial factors that lie behind influencing the social media users to change and edit their profile picture including the gender- based considerations. Moreover, study also observes the relationship of picture editing and interest of social media users with photography. For this purpose, a sample of 100 university students had been taken to fill the seven-likert scale questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted on questions related to social and psychological factors of an individual for changing and editing the social media profile picture and perceived notion of self-image and body satisfaction by users. The results of the study indicate that Females tend to be more interested in editing their profile pictures on social media. There seems not a strong relationship between the interest of photography and editing of the photo. Three main reasons, representing oneself for being unique, to show the fun and for being in mainstream line has been observed that motivate the users most of the time to change and edit the profile picture. Keywords: Psycho-social, social media, profile pictures