Patterns of online relationship seeking among transgender and gender diverse adolescents: Advice for others and common inquiries.

Ma, Junye; Korpak, Aaron K.; Choukas‐Bradley, Sophia; Macapagal, Kathryn

doi:10.1037/sgd0000482

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“…We have focused here on how appearance-related SM behaviors may increase the risk for body image concerns, depressive symptoms, and disordered eating. However, other SM behaviors may promote positive mental health and well-being, such as those that promote identity exploration, creative expression, community building, and meaningful conversations with friends (e.g., Anderson & Jiang, 2018b ; Ma et al, 2021 ; Maheux et al, 2021 ; and see Hamilton et al, 2021 ). We recommend the following as preliminary guidelines for clinicians’ work with adolescent girls: (1) If the adolescent client is struggling with body image concerns, the clinician might assess whether she is engaging with SM in ways that may exacerbate these concerns, such as through upward social comparisons, editing selfies, or following beauty-oriented influencer content; (2) if yes, the clinician might try using techniques from evidence-based approaches to treating other problematic behaviors, such as motivational interviewing, urge-surfing, and cognitive restructuring approaches (e.g., Bowen & Marlatt, 2009 ; Harris et al, 2017 ; Naar-King, 2011 ; Sudhir, 2015 ), to encourage the client to spend more time on SM or offline activities that improve, rather than worsen, her body image and mental health.…”

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The Perfect Storm: A Developmental–Sociocultural Framework for the Role of Social Media in Adolescent Girls’ Body Image Concerns and Mental Health

Choukas‐Bradley

Roberts

Maheux

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Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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In this theoretical review paper, we provide a developmental–sociocultural framework for the role of social media (SM) in adolescent girls’ body image concerns, and in turn, depressive symptoms and disordered eating. We propose that the features of SM (e.g., idealized images of peers, quantifiable feedback) intersect with adolescent developmental factors (e.g., salience of peer relationships) and sociocultural gender socialization processes (e.g., societal over-emphasis on girls’ and women’s physical appearance) to create the “perfect storm” for exacerbating girls’ body image concerns. We argue that, ultimately, body image concerns may be a key mechanism underlying associations between adolescent girls’ SM use and mental health. In the context of proposing this framework, we provide empirical evidence for how SM may increase adolescent girls’ body image concerns through heightening their focus on (1) other people’s physical appearance (e.g., through exposure to idealized images of peers, celebrities, and SM influencers; quantifiable indicators of approval); and (2) their own appearance (e.g., through appearance-related SM consciousness; exposure to idealized self-images; encouraging over-valuing of appearance; and peer approval of photos/videos). Our framework highlights new avenues for future research on adolescent girls’ SM use and mental health, which recognize the central role of body image.

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The Perfect Storm: A Developmental–Sociocultural Framework for the Role of Social Media in Adolescent Girls’ Body Image Concerns and Mental Health

Choukas‐Bradley

Roberts

Maheux

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Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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“…peers) rather than from those perceived as inequivalent in status. Likewise, studies have also shown that individuals tend to seek advice from people who are more similar to them (prototypicality), such as the study by Ma et al (2021) on seeking online relationships among sexually minority adolescents. Characteristics of the advice-seeker is another factor whereby past research looking at demographic and sociocultural variables found that subgroups of society which were more dependent and vulnerable (e.g.…”

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A Comparative Study on Online Advice-Seeking Strategies between Malaysian and Australian Women

Pung

2022

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Advice discourse is common in our everyday life. As such, research on advice is diverse and covers advice-related communicative practices such as advice-seeking, advice-giving and reception to advice. Past research on advice has also examined various factors affecting advicerelated practices such as the relationship between advice and politeness, gender, and characteristics of interlocutors. Although advice is a much-researched area, comparative studies that attempt to compare advice-seeking strategies in two similar contexts are scarce. The present study seeks to fulfill this gap, hence a comparative study that compares the strategies used by women in Malaysia and Australia when they seek advice on infertility treatment in a Malaysian online forum and in an Australian online forum is carried out. A total of 100 advice-seeking messages from each forum are examined using Locher's ( 2006) content analysis method that involves analysis of the discursive moves, relational work, and linguistic realisations of moves in the advice-seeking messages. The results show that although there is homogeneity in many aspects in both forums, there are still variations in the women's adviceseeking strategies due to cultural backgrounds, specifically on the frequency and levels of problem disclosure, as well as the use of local slangs and syntax constructions that are typical of their cultural community. The study provides insights about how cultural elements shape one's advice-seeking strategies, subsequently contributing to our understanding of crosscultural pragmatics.

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“…Given the exclusion of TGD adults from most previous research in the area, and the limited focus on them as victims rather than perpetrators [43], it was difficult to make predictions about the relative standing of TGD adults compared to cisgender adults in relation to perpetration behaviours. Our results clearly show that TGD adults were similar to ciswomen in terms of reporting lower levels of cyberbullyingperpetration than cismen, and were even lower even than ciswomen in relation to non-consensual sexting perpetration.…”

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“…Individuals can proactively declare their identity thereby signalling their availability to compatible others [21], and take advantage of geolocation features and dedicated online sites to find compatible others even when they are distributed over a large area [68][69][70]. Use of these strategies online can help to reduce the risk of rejection and hostility [31], help to reduce fear [42], and improve confidence and comfort [43] with seeking relationships online. Unfortunately, there is very little empirical research on online relationships TGD 1 3 adolescents or youths, and even less research into the attitudes and beliefs that influence relationship behaviours across different online contexts [13,69,43].…”

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“…The victimization experiences of TGD people appear to be expressions of the same gender-based oppression they experience offline. This includes discrimination, harassment, vilification, actual or threatened violence, negative stereotyping, exclusion/rejection, invalidation or non-confirmation of gender identity [42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55].…”

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Attitudes and Beliefs Associated with Cyberbullying and Non-Consensual Sexting in Cisgender and Transgender Adults

2022

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Cyberbullying and non-consensual sexting are prevalent and potentially harmful online behaviours. However, little is known about the attitudes and beliefs that underpin these behaviours in ciswomen and cismen and the extent to which they explain the online experiences of trans and gender diverse (TGD) people. A sample of 638 ciswomen, 722 cismen, and 146 TGD adults 18 to 66 years of age (M = 23.27, SD = 3.66), completed a survey of online perpetration behaviours, victimization experiences, and positive attitudes/beliefs about cyberbullying and sexting. MANCOVAs revealed significant gender differences in terms of both cyber and sexting perpetration and victimization. On average, ciswomen reported 8% less cyberbullying perpetration and 17% less non-consensual sexting perpetration than cismen, and experienced 77% more victimization from non-consensual sexting. TGD adults similarly reported 8% less cyberbullying perpetration than cismen, but also 65% less non-consensual sexting perpetration than cismen, as well as experiencing 77% more victimization from non-consensual sexts. MANCOVAs also revealed that cismen held more positive attitudes and beliefs about cyberbullying and sexting than ciswomen and TGD adults. Multigroup path analyses further revealed that positive attitudes and beliefs were related to perpetration behaviours but differently for different genders, with pro-cyberbullying attitudes/beliefs associated with perpetration behaviours in TGD adults, and pro-sexting attitudes/beliefs associated with perpetration behaviours in cisgender adults. These results highlight gender differences in online perpetration and victimization, extend this observation to TGD populations, and demonstrate the importance of underlying attitudes and beliefs.

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Patterns of online relationship seeking among transgender and gender diverse adolescents: Advice for others and common inquiries.

Cited by 13 publications

References 61 publications

The Perfect Storm: A Developmental–Sociocultural Framework for the Role of Social Media in Adolescent Girls’ Body Image Concerns and Mental Health

The Perfect Storm: A Developmental–Sociocultural Framework for the Role of Social Media in Adolescent Girls’ Body Image Concerns and Mental Health

A Comparative Study on Online Advice-Seeking Strategies between Malaysian and Australian Women

Attitudes and Beliefs Associated with Cyberbullying and Non-Consensual Sexting in Cisgender and Transgender Adults

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