Fitspiration and Thinspiration on Twitter: A Content Analysis

IF 3.4 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHIATRY European Eating Disorders Review Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI:10.1002/erv.3190

Mun Yee Kwan, Ayla N. Gioia, Rebecca Braverman, Kristina Drumheller

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Abstract

Objective

Fitspiration, an inspiration phenomenon intended to promote healthy living via exercises and dietary changes has been shown to convey unhealthy messages, contributing to body dissatisfaction. The aim of the present study was to compare thinspiration and fitspiration social media content on Twitter.

Methods

A total of 301 thinspiration posts and 479 fitspiration posts with the most views from Twitter were collected over a 4-week period for a content analysis. Text, image, and video content were coded by two independent coders.

Results

Thinspiration posts had more content on thin ideals and disordered eating while fitspiration posts had more content on muscular ideals and healthy living. Content focussing on weight or fat loss, unrealistic body ideals, and body sexualisation or objectification, were present in both thinspiration and fitspiration posts.

Conclusions

These findings support existing literature that both fitspiration and thinspiration content contains unhealthy messages. The current study made novel contributions to the literature by examining food-related and video content, in addition to body-related and text and image content.

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Twitter上的Fitspiration和Thinspiration：一项内容分析。

目的：Fitspiration是一种鼓舞人心的现象，旨在通过锻炼和饮食改变来促进健康生活，但已被证明传达了不健康的信息，导致了对身体的不满。本研究的目的是比较thinspiration和fitspiration在Twitter上的社交媒体内容。方法：在为期4周的时间里，收集301篇thinspiration帖子和479篇Twitter上浏览量最大的fitspiration帖子进行内容分析。文本、图像和视频内容由两个独立的编码器编码。结果：Thinspiration贴更多的是关于理想瘦身和饮食失调的内容，而fitspiration贴更多的是关于理想肌肉和健康生活的内容。thinspiration和fitspiration的帖子中都出现了关注减肥、不切实际的身材理想、身体性感化或物化的内容。结论：这些发现支持了现有文献的结论，即fitspiration和thinspiration的内容都含有不健康的信息。目前的研究通过研究与食物相关的内容和视频内容，以及与身体相关的文本和图像内容，对文献做出了新的贡献。

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European Eating Disorders Review PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-

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期刊介绍： European Eating Disorders Review publishes authoritative and accessible articles, from all over the world, which review or report original research that has implications for the treatment and care of people with eating disorders, and articles which report innovations and experience in the clinical management of eating disorders. The journal focuses on implications for best practice in diagnosis and treatment. The journal also provides a forum for discussion of the causes and prevention of eating disorders, and related health policy. The aims of the journal are to offer a channel of communication between researchers, practitioners, administrators and policymakers who need to report and understand developments in the field of eating disorders.