STUDY ON THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE AND EATING DISORDER AMONG FEMALE ADOLESCENTS IN A VOCATIONAL COLLEGE IN PERAK
. Zarifah Aziz, Zafirah Mohd Nor & Hamid Jan Jan Mohammed
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the possible associations between eating disorders and social media influence in female adolescents. A descriptive cross-sectional research approach was used from October 2022 to December 2022. For this study, a sample size of 145 aged 16 to 19 years old female students from Kolej Vokasional Seri Iskandar was required. The current study shows that the majority of participants was not develop eating disorder (72.4%) and only (27.6%) had an eating disorder. The results show that the highest age of participant that develop eating disorder was 19 years old (n=19) while the lowest age was 17 years old (n=7). For the frequency of social media influence and eating disorder among female adolescents shows that 26.2% of participants had eating disorder as result of social media influence while 13.8% had eating disorders without being affected by social media. The findings indicate that there is no significant relationship (p > 0.005) between social media influence and eating disorders in female adolescents. Hence, to assess the relationship between social media influence and eating disorders, particularly among female adolescents, further research can be done with other variables, such as family income, family problems and emotional health.
Keywords: Eating disorder, social media, influence, female, adolescents
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