Can the negative psychological impacts of social media be reduced by online health warnings? An investigation of body image disturbance.

女性越来越关注自己的外表。这可能会因接触社交媒体而加剧（Grabe, Ward & Hyde, 2008），目前的趋势表明，为了让女性被认为有吸引力，她们必须以某种方式看待（Tiggemann & Zaccardo, 2015）。研究人员和从业人员已经开始寻找保护自己免受与“瘦”媒体模特比较的负面影响的方法。然而，关于如何在流行的社交媒体网站上实现这一目标，还没有确定有效的方法——这是一个众所周知的对身体不满的原因，因此是提供保护的权宜之计。拟议的研究方案包括三项相互关联的研究，以全面调查年轻女性群体中对身体形象的关注与通过社交媒体发布的在线健康警告之间的联系。研究1和研究2将使用定性和定量方法来探索：(1)年轻女性在浏览不同的社交媒体时的想法/感受-包括苗条女性的帖子；(2)社交媒体用户对现有在线内容警告技术的看法。研究结果将为研究3的设计提供信息，研究3将探索某些类型的在线警告是否能成功地降低用户将苗条身材视为理想外表的程度。预计本研究将对年轻女性在接触社交媒体图像时的心理反应以及不同形式的警告的有效性提供一些保护价值方面的知识做出必要的原创性贡献。

Females are increasingly experiencing concern with their own appearance. This may be exacerbated by exposure to social media (Grabe, Ward & Hyde, 2008), on which current trends suggests that in order for women to be considered attractive, they must look a certain way (Tiggemann & Zaccardo, 2015).Researchers and practitioners have started to look for methods of protection against the negative impact of comparing oneself to "thin" media models. However, effective means are yet to be identified regarding how this could be achieved on popular social media sites - a known cause of body dissatisfaction and therefore an expedient focus for providing protection.The proposed research programme involves three linked studies to comprehensively investigate the connection between body image concern and online health warnings presented via social media, within young female populations. Studies 1 and 2 will utilise both qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore: (1) what young females are thinking/feeling while viewing different social media - including posts of thin females; and (2) social media users' perceptions of existing techniques for warning people about online content. The results will inform the design of Study 3, which will explore whether certain types of online warnings can successfully reduce the extent to which users see thin body frames as the ideal appearance.It is anticipated that this research will make a needed and original contribution to knowledge regarding the psychological responses of young females when exposed to social media images, and the efficacy of different forms of warnings to provide some protective value.