The impact of snapchat usage on drunkorexia behaviors in college women

Drunkorexia behaviors and motives, eating attitudes and mental health in Lebanese alcohol drinkers: a path analysis model

“…Our study also found that individuals with high stress and anxiety were associated with drunkorexic motives and behaviors. This is in accordance with other findings that have shown these psychological states' triggering effect on alcohol consumption and consequential drunkorexia [46].…”

Capturing the Bigger Picture: A Gestalt of General and Alcohol-Specific Social Media Usage During the Transition to College as a Predictor of First-Year Alcohol Use and Consequences

“…The likelihood of having a Facebook or Instagram account is also greater among drinkers, and binge drinkers are more likely to use Facebook or Snapchat (Boyle et al, 2018;Ceballos et al, 2018). Heavier alcohol use has been shown to be positively associated with hours per day on SM (Brunelle & Hopley, 2017), especially on Snapchat (LaBrie et al, 2021a), while weekly drinking has been shown to be positively associated with checking Snapchat (Foster et al, 2020).…”

“…The research described thus far suggests that college student drinking is associated with checking SM platforms more frequently and spending more time on SM (Boyle et al, 2018;Brunelle & Hopley, 2017;Foster et al, 2020;LaBrie et al, 2021a), using more than one platform (Ceballos et al, 2018), using Snapchat or Instagram (Boyle et al, 2018;Ceballos et al, 2018;Foster et al, 2020), having a Finstagram account (LaBrie et al, 2021b), and posting alcoholrelated content on SM (e.g., Rodriguez et al, 2016;Steers et al, 2019;Westgate et al, 2014).…”

“…Although these studies highlight individual SM behaviors that may be risk factors for college student drinking, only a minority have investigated more than one SM behavior at a time across multiple SM platforms (Brunelle & Hopley, 2017;Ceballos et al, 2018;Erevik et al, 2017Erevik et al, , 2018Foster et al, 2020;Thompson & Romo, 2016). These variable-centered studies are also inconsistent in terms of the combination of SM behaviors and platforms that were examined, and only three included Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat (Ceballos et al, 2018;Erevik et al, 2017;Foster et al, 2020). As such, it is difficult to determine the specific constellation of SM behaviors most associated with alcohol-related risks so those platform-specific behaviors can be targeted in interventions.…”

“…Prior research suggests that using SM can have serious real-world health implications (e.g., high-risk alcohol use, depressed mood; Boyle et al, 2016;Frison & Eggermont, 2017). Heavy drinking among college students is a major health issue (Schulenberg et al, 2019) linked to two categories of SM behaviors: (a) general-use-focused variables (e.g., more time spent on SM; using two or more platforms concurrently; having Snapchat; Foster et al, 2020;LaBrie et al, 2021a), and (b) alcohol-related SM variables (e.g., posting about alcohol, following alcohol companies; Barry et al, 2016;Curtis et al, 2018;Thompson & Romo, 2016). Although findings from variable-centered studies have illuminated several individual pieces of the SM-alcohol puzzle, prior studies have not examined these SM behaviors across multiple platforms as they naturally occur -in combination with each other.…”