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SIO317: Is Instagram Bad for Mental Health? What the Science Says Might Surprise You

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Body Dissatisfaction in Teens and Adults

There's research going back decades, a far breeft, predating the emergence of social media, that has documented problematically high prevalence of body dissatisfaction. And those behaviors are already being reported at very high rates. Over all, the results also indicated that body dissatisfaction is highest in young s and it remains high into middle age. Doesn't seem to drop for women into late adulthood. So you finally don't give a shid any moreye? Yes. O. The lesson here is, the message here is not everything's hunky, dorry but that these studies long predate, in some cases, social media. That capitalistic admen type thing seems to have had a profound

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