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The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students

With the rapid development of technology, students have become increasingly reliant on social media. Instagram has emerged as a prominent platform for young adults to communicate and share various photographs. However, the shared photographs are often altered by the owner to make them look desirab...

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Main Author: Kong, Rui Qing
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2024
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H Social Sciences (General)
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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spelling my-utar-eprints.64042024-06-16T06:15:02Z The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students Kong, Rui Qing H Social Sciences (General) QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science With the rapid development of technology, students have become increasingly reliant on social media. Instagram has emerged as a prominent platform for young adults to communicate and share various photographs. However, the shared photographs are often altered by the owner to make them look desirable to the public, and this has been contributing to body dissatisfaction among the viewers. This is because the standards, such as flawless skin, extremely slim body size, and white skin tone, are often unachievable. In the long term, upward comparisons affected the viewers’ self-esteem, confidence level, emotions, and self-perception. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the impact of Instagram on body dissatisfaction among UTAR students to obtain insight into the students’ perceptions of unrealistic beauty standards. This research applied the quantitative research method to collect 100 responses from UTAR students, consisting of 52 male and 48 female students. The results show that the occurrence of body dissatisfaction among male and female students has no significant difference. Still, the unrealistic images on Instagram strongly influence both genders’ perception of beauty. Thus, this study underscores the need for awareness in the community to address the effects of Instagram on body image-related issues. 2024 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6404/1/FYP_Kong_Rui_Qing.pdf Kong, Rui Qing (2024) The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6404/
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topic H Social Sciences (General)
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
spellingShingle H Social Sciences (General)
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Kong, Rui Qing
The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students
description With the rapid development of technology, students have become increasingly reliant on social media. Instagram has emerged as a prominent platform for young adults to communicate and share various photographs. However, the shared photographs are often altered by the owner to make them look desirable to the public, and this has been contributing to body dissatisfaction among the viewers. This is because the standards, such as flawless skin, extremely slim body size, and white skin tone, are often unachievable. In the long term, upward comparisons affected the viewers’ self-esteem, confidence level, emotions, and self-perception. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the impact of Instagram on body dissatisfaction among UTAR students to obtain insight into the students’ perceptions of unrealistic beauty standards. This research applied the quantitative research method to collect 100 responses from UTAR students, consisting of 52 male and 48 female students. The results show that the occurrence of body dissatisfaction among male and female students has no significant difference. Still, the unrealistic images on Instagram strongly influence both genders’ perception of beauty. Thus, this study underscores the need for awareness in the community to address the effects of Instagram on body image-related issues.
format Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
author Kong, Rui Qing
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title The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students
title_short The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students
title_full The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students
title_fullStr The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students
title_full_unstemmed The impact of Instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among UTAR students
title_sort impact of instagram content towards body dissatisfaction among utar students
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