“Adolescence is the period of personal and social identity formation (Erikson, 1950), and much of this development is now reliant on social media.
Due to their limited capacity for self-regulation and their vulnerability to peer pressure, adolescents may not evade the potentially adverse effects of social media use, and consequently, they are at greater risk of developing mental disorder. However, evidence on the influence of social media on adolescents’ psychosocial development remains at an early stage of development”
(Keles, McCrae, & Grealish, 2020)
Questions to Consider:
1) What is the relationship between youth and mental health, specifically with regards to physical appearance and self-perception.
2) With the rise in technology, humanity's access to information
(whether accurate or not) is greater than it's ever been. How are you
personal and social identity
physical appearance
self-perception.
reliant on social media.
capacity for self-regulation
greater risk
access to information