Social media usage among teens is more prevalent than ever before. In recent years, researchers have begun investigating how much social media affects teen weight concerns and body image issues. A new ...

Social media can be both good and bad for your body image. What really matters is how you use it. This requires you to use social media intentionally and strategically. Social media can influence your ...

This post was co-authored by Heather Widdows, Ph.D., and Jessica Sutherland. That social media is bad for adolescents’ mental health is well known, and a mounting body of work links “smartphone and ...