THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF EATING DISORDERS IN ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

Introduction: Eating disorders have a great ability to interfere in the adolescents' way of life, and as time goes by, it compromises their own physical and mental health, because in addition to compromising their view of themselves, it also makes it difficult to socialize. in society, because he is focused on not gaining weight or losing weight that ends up acquiring other types of pathologies that can lead to death. Objective: To describe the influence of social media on the development of eating disorders in adolescents. Methodology: This study will be carried out through data collection from secondary sources and bibliographic survey. Results and discussion: the media become a very determining and causative factor in relation to the acquisition of eating disorders, as it enables the information and idealization of physical concepts accepted by society, which ends up causing a great desire in the adolescent public, which is increasingly degraded and self-inferred, with a single desire to be accepted by the normative parameters that society raises through the media, of ideal beauty. Conclusion: With this study we can analyze and understand the strength of the media in relation to the ideal beauty standard, in this case it was observed that the affected adolescents have no bodily acceptance causing the search for the perfect body, in view of harmful factors generated by these means, diets that compromise the proper functioning of the organism and quality of life.