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What Do You See When You Look At Me? Social Media, Socialized Gender Variables, And Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls, Annamaria Mcandrew
What Do You See When You Look At Me? Social Media, Socialized Gender Variables, And Disordered Eating Among Adolescent Girls, Annamaria Mcandrew
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The present study examined sociocultural factors associated with disordered eating among adolescent girls. The objective of Part 1 of the study was to explore the associations between social media use, socialized gender variables, and eating pathology. Participants were 238 adolescent girls between 14 and 17 years of age. Participants completed online measures assessing eating pathology, objectified body consciousness, social media use, and self-esteem. Results of Part 1 indicated that girls used photo-based social media applications – in particular, Instagram and Snapchat – for between one and four hours per day. Time spent using and frequency of checking social media were …
A Hybrid Hypothesis For Understanding The Relation Between Adhd Symptoms, Facebook Use, And Social Distress And Loneliness, Shanna Deasley
A Hybrid Hypothesis For Understanding The Relation Between Adhd Symptoms, Facebook Use, And Social Distress And Loneliness, Shanna Deasley
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Emerging research has explored how ADHD is related to Facebook and social media use. This study explored whether a hybrid hypothesis of the social compensation and cross-situational continuity hypotheses would explain potential inconsistencies in the Facebook usage of people with higher levels of ADHD symptoms. Specifically, the hybrid hypothesis proposed that people with social deficits have social motivations for using Facebook; however, they may not benefit from online interactions due to enacting the same problematic social behaviors that they do in offline settings. This study compared 87 young adults with different levels of ADHD symptoms on their Facebook usage patterns, …
E-Professionalism In Undergraduate Nursing Students, Jessica Chu
E-Professionalism In Undergraduate Nursing Students, Jessica Chu
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Nursing students have been charged criminally or expelled from undergraduate programs for inappropriate social media use. The literature has heavily criticized nursing students for unprofessional use of social media and a lack E-professionalism. The concept of E-professionalism within healthcare is relatively new as more providers use social media, thus it has quickly become an ethical and specialized challenge for nursing. The purpose of this research was to explore E-Professionalism among undergraduate nursing students at a midsize South Western Ontario university. A sample of 136 nursing students participated in this study. Subjects could identify blatant examples of appropriate and inappropriate of …
Perceptions Of Female Faculty Members At King Abdulaziz University On Social Media As A Teaching Tool: Challenges And Best Practices, Alaa Kutbi
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In the age of technology, everything is much faster and easier than it was in the past, but more complicated. The internet is one of the most powerful technologies of our time. Communication technology, for example, became one of the inventions that humans interact with the most, and that could be due to the urgent need to communicate with others. That could be why social media became so successful and popular among members of society. However, researchers have indicated that most of the students in Saudi Arabia are not experiencing the use of social media as a part of their …