Short-form video overuse and adolescents’ restrained eating: the roles of body shame and physical exercise
Xu Kong, Mingwei Deng, Sicheng Xiong, Chengwei Zeng, Zuhua Zhang, Chunling He, Bin Zhang · 2025
Read Short-form video overuse and adolescents’ restrained eating: the roles of body shame and physical exercise by Xu Kong, Mingwei Deng, Sicheng Xiong, Chengwei Zeng, Zuhua Zhang, Chunling He, Bin Zhang (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12821318.txt.
Description
Xu Kong and co-authors study how heavy short video use links to restrained eating in teenagers, and what softens the link. Their 2025 survey covers 535 students aged thirteen to seventeen at four schools in Hunan, China. Body image norms spread by social media can breed body shame. Shame, in turn, can drive strict control of eating. The team tested shame as the middle step in that chain.
Survey scales measured video overuse, body shame, restrained eating, and exercise. Heavy video use went with more restrained eating. Body shame carried much of that link, as the model predicted. The shame to eating step ran stronger in teens who exercised little. Exercise thus looks like a buffer worth building into school programs. The authors caution that the data are one snapshot in time, from one province.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xu Kong, Mingwei Deng, Sicheng Xiong, Chengwei Zeng, Zuhua Zhang, Chunling He, Bin Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |