Research Article
When Body Shaming on Social Media Harms One’s Mental Health, Who’s to Blame?
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.15-9-2022.2335885, author={Dwi Rini Sovia Firdaus and Deana Aprilia Saskia Dewi and Ismail Taufik Rusfien and Dini Valdiani and Henny Suharyati}, title={When Body Shaming on Social Media Harms One’s Mental Health, Who’s to Blame?}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st Pedagogika International Conference on Educational Innovation, PICEI 2022, 15 September 2022, Gorontalo, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={PICEI}, year={2023}, month={9}, keywords={body shaming instagram mental health social media}, doi={10.4108/eai.15-9-2022.2335885} }- Dwi Rini Sovia Firdaus
Deana Aprilia Saskia Dewi
Ismail Taufik Rusfien
Dini Valdiani
Henny Suharyati
Year: 2023
When Body Shaming on Social Media Harms One’s Mental Health, Who’s to Blame?
PICEI
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.15-9-2022.2335885
Abstract
This research aims to identify the influence of body shaming on Instagram towards the mental health of adolescents in Bogor City, and it is prominent because more adolescents become victims of bullying in cyberspace. As many as 168 direct and indirect reports through print and online media were sent to the central KPAID in 2021. From the KPAID Bogor City data, from 2017 to 2022 there has been an increasing number of adolescents as victims of psychic violence, which reached its peak in 2021 as many as 4 cases. Women mostly experience body shaming. This quantitative study uses body shaming as the independent variable and adolescents' mental health in Bogor City as the dependent variable. The indicators for body shaming variables are fat or skinny shaming, body hair, skin color, and face shaming. The indicators for adolescent mental health variables are: having a positive attitude towards themselves, being able to actualize themselves well, feeling good about themselves, being comfortable when in relationships with others, and being able to carry out the demands of life. This research was carried out in the Bogor City area in six districts using a non-probability sampling technique through accidental sampling. The total sample of 100 people were taken from the total adolescent population of Bogor City, as many as 267,593 people. This study shows some damaging influences of body shaming on Instagram towards the mental health of Bogor City teenagers.