<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.2d1 20170631//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"> <ArticleSet> <Article> <Journal> <PublisherName>journalofhealthstudies</PublisherName> <JournalTitle>Indian Journal of Health Studies</JournalTitle> <PISSN>I</PISSN> <EISSN>S</EISSN> <Volume-Issue/> <PartNumber/> <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic> <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage> <Season/> <SpecialIssue>N</SpecialIssue> <SupplementaryIssue>N</SupplementaryIssue> <IssueOA>Y</IssueOA> <PubDate> <Year>-0001</Year> <Month>11</Month> <Day>30</Day> </PubDate> <ArticleType>Health Studies</ArticleType> <ArticleTitle>Scrolling with doubt: Exploring the link between social media and appearance anxiety</ArticleTitle> <SubTitle/> <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage> <ArticleOA>Y</ArticleOA> <FirstPage>0</FirstPage> <LastPage>0</LastPage> <AuthorList> <Author> <FirstName>JULIANA JECINTH R</FirstName> <LastName>B</LastName> <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage> <Affiliation/> <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor> <ORCID/> </Author> </AuthorList> <DOI/> <Abstract>The relationship between social media and people's judgments of their personal appearance has come under close study in an age driven by digital connectivity and visual representation. Social media platforms' ever-present effect has changed societal standards and the way people see themselves and other people. One of the effects of this digital revolution is appearance anxiety, which has become a major issue, especially among young adults between the ages of 18 and 25. The purpose of the study was to identify the relationship between the frequency and kind of social media use and the emergence of psychological distress connected to appearance utilizing a non-parametric correlational study design. The study goes into the ramifications of this dynamic by examining whether more social media involvement among young adults leads to higher appearance concern, with 210 participants chosen through purposive sampling. The results shed light on the wider effects of digital contact on mental health, emphasizing the need for a complex understanding of how social media affects how people perceive themselves and other people.</Abstract> <AbstractLanguage>English</AbstractLanguage> <Keywords>Appearance Anxiety,Social media,Mental Health,Psychological Distress</Keywords> <URLs> <Abstract>https://journalofhealthstudies.in/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=15186&title=Scrolling with doubt: Exploring the link between social media and appearance anxiety</Abstract> </URLs> <References> <ReferencesarticleTitle>References</ReferencesarticleTitle> <ReferencesfirstPage>16</ReferencesfirstPage> <ReferenceslastPage>19</ReferenceslastPage> <References/> </References> </Journal> </Article> </ArticleSet>