Social media and self-esteem hypotheses
Students designing a study get theory-anchored, directional hypotheses with clear variable relationships ready for testing.
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Girdi
- Research Topic
- Investigating whether the amount of time adolescents spend on image-focused social media platforms affects their body-image satisfaction.
- Variable Info
- Independent variable: daily time spent on image-focused social media (minutes) Dependent variable: body-image satisfaction score Control variables: age, gender, baseline self-esteem
- Hypothesis Type
- directional
- Num Hypotheses
- 3
- Theoretical Framework
- Social Comparison Theory
Çıktı (alıntı)
H1: Adolescents who spend more daily time on image-focused social media will report lower body-image satisfaction than those who spend less time. H2: The negative relationship between image-focused social media use and body-image satisfaction will be stronger for adolescents with lower baseline self-esteem. H3: Following appearance-focused accounts will predict greater upward social comparison, which in turn predicts lower body-image satisfaction. Each is grounded in Social Comparison Theory's premise that exposure to idealized images drives unfavorable self-evaluation.