Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
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Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
Vol. 1, 26 December 2021
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TikTok and Body Image of Young Adults
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Abstract
As social media like TikTok grows more popular in the digital age, people seem to be driven more and more by standards on social media, despite the lack of research. This study chooses to use the research method of Focus group and selects six university students from the University of Macau for research (N=6) to explore the relationship between TikTok and the body image of young adults. These participants were avid users of social media, and the final data showed gender differences, individual differences, and indirect impact differences. In the data provided by this sample, we not only saw the different effects on each participant, but also shows how young adults were indirectly affected when TikTok went mainstream.
Keywords
Focus group, Social media, Young adults, Body image, TikTok
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Data Availability
The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study will be available from the authors upon reasonable request.
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Educational Innovation and Philosophical Inquiries (ICEIPI 2021), Part 1
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-915371-00-3
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-915371-01-0
- Published Date
- 26 December 2021
- Series
- Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7048
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7056
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7048/1/ICEIPI_244
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- © 2023 The Author(s)
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- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited