%0 Journal Article
%T The Selfie Generation: Examining the Relationship Between Social Media Use and Early Adolescent Body Image
%A Christia Spears Brown
%A Ilyssa Salomon
%J The Journal of Early Adolescence
%@ 1552-5449
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0272431618770809
%X Social media use among adolescents continues to increase each year. This cross-sectional study explored how the amount of time spent using social media and the frequency of specific behaviors on social media, namely, behaviors that involve self-objectification, were related to body surveillance and body shame among a sample of early adolescents (N = 142; 43 boys and 99 girls, X бе a g e = 12.44 years, SDage = 0.61). Utilizing self-report measures, three types of social media were examined: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Analyses indicated that greater levels of self-objectifying social media use predicted greater body shame among youth, and this was mediated by an associated increase in body surveillance. This mediation was moderated by self-monitoring and gender, such that the mediating role of body surveillance was stronger among girls and adolescents who are particularly focused on others for approval (i.e., high in self-monitoring). Implications of these findings are discussed
%K social media
%K body image
%K early adolescents
%K self-objectification
%K self-monitoring
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0272431618770809