Looking good but tweeting bad? The social perception of orthodontic-related posts on Twitter and Instagram.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social media plays a major role in the daily life of adolescents and has become highly interesting for healthcare research as well. The aim of this study was to explore the social perception of orthodontic-related posts on Twitter and Instagram by young adults.

Methods

401 orthodontic-related posts were collected during a 30-day period and categorized with regard to specific characteristics - their content and the social networking site (SNS) being used as well as the presence or absence of a selfie. In order to investigate the social perception of these posts, 42 young adults rated the emotional states of the SNS users using the Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM)-Tool. A total of 4211 poster-rater observations pertaining to the three SAMs dimensions pleasure, arousal

SUBMITTER: Graf I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8851782 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature