The mediating effect of appearance functional internalization between social comparison tendency and body image distress of college students
Objective To explore the mediating effect of appearance functional internalization be-tween social comparison tendency and body image distress of college students.Methods From June to Sep-tember 2023,a cross-sectional survey was conducted among 308 college students with the social comparison tendency scale,the functional internalization questionnaire of college students'appearance and the body im-age anxiety scale for adolescent students.SPSS 22.0 software was used for common method bias test,descrip-tive statistics and correlation analysis,Mplus 8.0 was used for structural equation construction,and Bootstrap method was used for intermediary effect analysis.Results Body image distress(43.86±8.78)was posi-tively correlated with social comparison tendency(35.20±6.04)and appearance functional internalization(38.35±9.68)(r=0.35,0.33,both P＜0.01).There was also a positive correlation between social compar-ison tendency and appearance functional internalization(r=0.51,P＜0.01).The effect of social comparison tendency on body image distress was mediated by appearance functional internalization,and the mediating effect value was 0.137,accounted for 35.13％(0.137/0.390)of the total effect.Conclusion The appear-ance functional internalization mediates the relationship between social comparison tendency and body image distress.Social comparison tendency can not only directly predict body image distress,but also can predict body image distress,indirectly through appearance functional internalization.
Social comparative tendencyAppearance functional internalizationBody image distressCollege studentMediating effect
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