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最新调查:社交网站Facebook或引发少女用户饮食紊乱

发布时间:2011-02-14 11:48:22 Tags:,,,

据海法大学(University of Haifa)最近的一份调查显示,使用Facebook会导致饮食紊乱,调查发现“少女们使用Facebook的频率超高,就越容易呈现不良体形,越容易形成像厌食症和暴食症之类的不良饮食习惯。”

Facebook Linked To Eating Disorders

Facebook Linked To Eating Disorders

游戏邦获悉,该大学的Yael Letzer、Ruth Katz 和Zohar Spivak教授抽样调查了248名12-18岁的女孩,让这些女孩对媒介使用情况进行投票, 同时让她们完成了有关自我认识和个人形体方面的问卷调查。结果发现,“越频繁使用社交网络的女孩,越容易患上暴食症(吃很多的东西,然后又把它们吐出来)或者厌食症(常常让自己受饿),这些厌食症的女孩通常对自己的身材不满意,为减肥而食。”

另外该调查还指出,爱看电视和喜欢浏览女性杂志的女孩们的饮食习惯也很不健康,但并不像因Facebook而导致的饮食问题表现得那么明显。

笔者身为80后,并不是在Facebook年代中长大的,我一直到上大学才接触到哈佛大学精英们创建的校友网站。如今早熟的女孩和我不同,她们更爱自拍,生活更丰富。不论是在校园内,还是和朋友外出,甚至是在家里都很强的自我形象意识。当然,女性杂志、电视和互联网传递的关于“美丽”和“女人味”信息,也与她们的这种意识极有关联。

Facebook并非女生过份重视外形的原凶,但调查显示社交网站确实会促使用户更重视自己的形体,尤其是外表。海法大学的教授建议父母要对自己孩子所浏览的网页进行监督,防范于未然。但游戏邦认为,与其限制子女使用Facebook,不如培养这些青少年的正确价值观。(本文为游戏邦/gamerboom.com编译,转载请注明来源:游戏邦)

Study: Facebook Linked To Eating Disorders

A recent study has linked Facebook use to eating disorders, finding that “the more teenage girls are involved in Facebook, the higher their risk of having a negative body image and developing eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.”

Prof. Yael Letzer, Prof. Ruth Katz and Zohar Spivak of the University of Haifa observed a sample of 248 girls ages 12-18. The girls were polled on their media consumption and completed surveys on their level of Facebook use. They also completed questionnaires asking them about their self-conception and body image. The study found that “the more [the girls] were on the social network, the more they were likely to suffer from bulimia (eating a lot of food and then vomiting it) or anorexia (starving themselves) dissatisfaction with their figures and pursuit of a weight-loss diet”

The girls who spent a lot of time watching TV and reading women’s magazines also demonstrated unhealthy eating trends, but the correlation wasn’t as strong as the link between Facebook use and problems with food.

As someone born in the late eighties, I didn’t grow up with Facebook. It wasn’t until I was in my first year of university that I caught wind of a campus networking site organized by the smarties at Harvard. Unlike me, the girls maturing today  find themselves in a world where their lives are more photographed and mediated than ever before. At school, while out with friends, and even at home, teens are increasingly photographing themselves and each other, making them more image conscious. This is, of course, in addition to absorbing pervasive images of “beauty” and femininity” that circulate in women’s magazines, on TV, and across the internet.

While Facebook itself can’t be blamed for body image disorders, the study hints that the social network promotes a single-minded focus on oneself, and especially emphasizes one’s looks.

University of Haifa professors advise parents to supervise their children’s web use in order to reduce the danger. Perhaps what’s more effective than mico-managing you teenager’s Facebook use is telling her how powerful she is—regardless of her profile picture.(Source:SocialTimes)


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