Body dissatisfaction in adolescents is an unpleasant feeling they have towards their changing body, and this feeling is influenced by psychological, social and physiological factors. Body image is very important in adolescence; Because worries about it cause unhealthy eating behaviors and all kinds of psychological problems in adolescents.
The present study investigated the relationship between perfectionism, self-esteem and the use of social media with body dissatisfaction through the internalization of media ideals: Presenting a moderating mediating model on male and female adolescents in Bushehr.
The present research is applied by correlation method and structural equations. The statistical population of this study includes adolescent girls and boys from Bushehr. Adolescents ranged in age from 15 to 25 years. 300 adolescents completed the Littleton Image Fear Scale, the Graziano Youth Self-Supervision Questionnaire, the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire, Social Media Usage Scale, Rosenburn Self-Esteem Scale, and the Cobour Perfection Cognition Scale.
The results show a direct relationship between perfectionism and self-esteem and the use of social media with the internalization of the apparent ideals of the media, and between perfectionism and self-esteem and the use of social media with body dissatisfaction mediated The internalization of ideals has an indirectly positive relationship.
The findings of this study showed that perfectionism is a personality trait that predisposes adolescents to media pressures, and this social media portrays the ideal and complete body that the perfectionist adolescent is always looking for. They give it to him. Also, the more negative the adolescent's self-esteem is, the more dissatisfied he or she is with his or her appearance and the lower the sense of worth, and the adolescent will be more likely to experience negative emotions in terms of appearance and beauty.