TABLE 2.
Differences in social media (SM) use by self-report of body image issues (BII).
| Total sample N = 5,070 | No BII N = 2,448 | BII N = 1,192 | P | |
| Age (years), mean (SD) | 15.79 (1.23) | 15.76 (1.22) | 15.83 (1.22) | 0.14 |
| Gender | < 0.001 | |||
| Female | 2,753 (54.3%) | 1,236 (50.5%) | 925 (77.6%) | |
| Male | 2,203 (43.5%) | 1,159 (47.3%) | 215 (18.0%) | |
| Other | 114 (2.3%) | 53 (2.2%) | 52 (4.4%) | |
| Do not use social media | 0.021 | |||
| No | 3,424 (67.5%) | 2,252 (92.0%) | 1,132 (95.0%) | |
| Yes | 162 (3.2%) | 122 (5.0%) | 40 (3.4%) | |
| 0.037 | ||||
| No | 2,756 (54.4%) | 1,843 (75.3%) | 873 (73.2%) | |
| Yes | 830 (16.4%) | 531 (21.7%) | 299 (25.1%) | |
| 0.13 | ||||
| No | 582 (11.5%) | 378 (15.4%) | 164 (13.8%) | |
| Yes | 3,004 (59.3%) | 1,996 (81.5%) | 1,008 (84.6%) | |
| Missing | 1,484 (29.3%) | 74 (3.0%) | 20 (1.7%) | |
| < 0.001 | ||||
| No | 2,749 (54.2%) | 1,959 (80.0%) | 750 (62.9%) | |
| Yes | 837 (16.5%) | 415 (17.0%) | 422 (35.4%) | |
| < 0.001 | ||||
| No | 3,242 (63.9%) | 2,176 (88.9%) | 1,026 (86.1%) | |
| Yes | 344 (6.8%) | 198 (8.1%) | 146 (12.2%) | |
| Snapchat | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 1,142 (22.5%) | 809 (33.0%) | 293 (24.6%) | |
| Yes | 2,444 (48.2%) | 1,565 (63.9%) | 879 (73.7%) | |
| TikTok | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 1,889 (37.3%) | 1,373 (56.1%) | 476 (39.9%) | |
| Yes | 1,697 (33.5%) | 1,001 (40.9%) | 696 (58.4%) | |
| < 0.001 | ||||
| No | 2,587 (51.0%) | 1,753 (71.6%) | 794 (66.6%) | |
| Yes | 999 (19.7%) | 621 (25.4%) | 378 (31.7%) | |
| YouTube | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 872 (17.2%) | 613 (25.0%) | 219 (18.4%) | |
| Yes | 2,714 (53.5%) | 1,761 (71.9%) | 953 (79.9%) | |
| Other social media | < 0.001 | |||
| No | 3,386 (66.8%) | 2,287 (93.4%) | 1,099 (92.2%) | |
| Yes | 200 (3.9%) | 87 (3.6%) | 73 (6.1%) | |
| Number of social media platforms used, mean (SD) | 3.69 (1.85) | 3.47 (1.76) | 4.25 (1.87) | < 0.001 |
| Time spent on social media daily | < 0.001 | |||
| Less than 1 h | 493 (9.7%) | 385 (15.7%) | 108 (9.1%) | |
| 1– h | 918 (18.1%) | 645 (26.3%) | 273 (22.9%) | |
| More than 2 h | 2,135 (42.1%) | 1,344 (54.9%) | 791 (66.4%) |