The Relationship Between Appearance Comparison On Social Networking Sites And Restrained Eating Among Female Secondary Vocational School Students:a Moderated Mediation Model

With the rise of mobile Internet,social network sites have become an important tool for people to obtain information and communicate.Appearance comparison on social networking sites has become an inevitable psychological phenomenon.Previous studies have found that the use of social network sites may lead to bad eating behaviors,but there are few studies on the specific behavior of Social network appearance comparison and restrained eating.Therefore,in order to explore the relationship between appearance comparison on social networking sites and restrained eating of female secondary vocational school students and the role of negative physical self,and self compassion,based on social comparison theory,objectification theory and tripartite influence model this study adopts questionnaires of appearance comparison on SNS,restrained eating,negative physical self,and self compassion were completed in 704 female secondary vocational students from 12 secondary vocational school in Shenyang and Dalian,then used spss 22.0 and SPSS process program to analyze the questionnaire result data.The results showed that:（1）Appearance comparison on social networking sites had a significant positive predictive effect on restrained eating.（2）In the relationship between appearance comparison on social networking sites and restrained eating,fat negative physical self played a mediating role.（3）Self compassion can moderate the impact of fat negative physical self.Specifically,with the increase of self compassion,the mediating effect of fat negative physical self was decreased.