Abstract
Abstract This integrative review of literature followed the PICO strategy to investigate the repercussions of the use of social networks on the body image of their users. PubMed, LILACS, PsycINFO and SciELO databases were included as well as articles published between January 2006 and February 2019. Thirty-three articles were analyzed, which compose the corpus of this review. The studies revealed that social networks have a predominantly negative repercussion on the body self-image of their users, increasing levels of body dissatisfaction, also having a negative impact on mood and self-esteem. Added to this, social networks influenced the body type that users would like to have, translated by the lean body profile, considered a model of beauty.
Highlights
This integrative review of literature followed the PICO strategy to investigate the repercussions of the use of social networks on the body image of their users
The aim of the present study was to conduct an integrative review of the growing body of research that investigated the repercussions of the use of social networks on the body image of their users
This integrative literature review pointed out that, in almost all the studies analyzed, social networks had a negative impact on their users’ body image; and that even when social networks did not directly interfere with body image, their use had a negative impact on the mood and self-esteem of these individuals, variables that are directly related to body satisfaction
Summary
This integrative review of literature followed the PICO strategy to investigate the repercussions of the use of social networks on the body image of their users. Our bodily existence is inserted in a cultural and relational context, and through the body we can express the effects of the representations with which we had contact and communicate with each other. In this sense, the body overcomes the purely biological character, manifesting itself as a social, cultural, psychological, and religious expression (Ulian et al, 2016; Barbosa et al, 2011). Body dissatisfaction is considered an attitudinal disorder of BI, and concerns the negative assessment that one has about one’s own body, due to the perception of a discrepancy between the assessment of the current body and the body considered ideal (Grogan, 2008), which currently closes in on the possibilities of a thin body, shaped with soft curves and sculpturally worked in gyms (Campo et al, 2016)
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