Body Image in Young People: How Dissatisfaction Develops, What Social Media Adds, and What Protects Against It
4 days ago
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Body image is the picture a person carries of their own body and the feelings attached to it, and for children and teenagers it is being drawn in an environment their parents never faced: a continuous, curated feed of other bodies. The research on how dissatisfaction develops and what it does to wellbeing is large, and it points at specific, modifiable exposures rather than at any inevitable feature of adolescence.
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