The impact of seeing and posting photos on mental health and body satisfaction:A panel study among Dutch and Japanese adolescents

A vivid scholarly debate addresses the extent to which social media usage is detrimental for adolescents’ mental health and body satisfaction. The current study aims to advance the debate in three ways: (1) we differentiate between different types of active and passive social media use (i.e., authentic vs. edited content), (2) we examine both between- and within-person results, and (3) we take a cross-national approach. Therefore, a three-wave panel study was conducted among 987 adolescents in Japan (N = 433) and the Netherlands (N = 554) to longitudinally investigate the relationships between... Mehr ...