Why people join pro-Ana online communities? A psychological textual analysis of eating disorder blog posts

Smartphone and Instagram use, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorders: investigating the associations using self-report and tracked data

BACKGROUND

Previous research has linked smartphone and Instagram use to higher body dissatisfaction (BD) as well as eating disorder (ED) symptomatology. However, these studies have typically been limited to using self-report measures for technology use which, as shown by scientific literature, might not be reliable. In the present work, we combine self-reported assessments as well as tracked smartphone and Instagram use.

METHODS

The effective sample comprised N = 119 women (34 with ED diagnosis history) who were queried about BD and ED symptomatology, and who provided the data about their smartphone and Instagram use duration for each day of the previous week.

RESULTS

The study results show that women with an ED diagnosis history scored higher on both BD as well as ED scales. Although women with an ED diagnosis history had higher smartphone screen time, there were no statistically significant differences in Instagram screen time. Tracked smartphone use duration was positively correlated with both BD and ED symptomatology, but the role of Instagram use needs to be further elucidated.

CONCLUSIONS

The results of this study show that while BD and ED symptomatology are correlated with smartphone use, it may be that Instagram use is not the main contributor to that relationship.

On the Innovation Mechanism and Communication Path of Philosophical Thinking in Innovative Community Environment

The development of philosophy has spawned a new type of interpersonal relationship, namely network community. As the main group of network applications, college students are an important part of the network community. Different from traditional thinking, community philosophical thinking has the remarkable characteristics of "equality, interaction, openness, and cooperation." In the new media environment, we should fully learn from and learn philosophical thinking, carry out mechanism innovation, and form a "decentralized" network education community system; create a borderless network "education ecology"; build a network education model integrating "self-education" and "peer education"; promote the upgrading of network education mechanism from "one-way traffic" to "interactive participation"; and innovate the education mechanism in four aspects, so as to better meet the requirements of Education under the new media environment and improve the effect at the same time. Facing the era environment of philosophy and technology, the community environment should rely on the network community to study the innovation path. This paper first analyzes the connotation and characteristics of the online community, then discusses the innovation mechanism and communication significance of philosophical thinking based on the online community, and finally summarizes the innovation path of philosophical thinking based on the online community. By combing the impact and challenges brought by philosophy, this paper analyzes the necessity and importance of constructing innovation mechanisms under philosophical thinking, explains the rationality and superiority of innovation mechanisms under philosophical thinking, and puts forward some suggestions on constructing innovation mechanisms and communication path.