Further evidence of the association between social media use, eating disorder pathology and appearance ideals and pressure: a cross-sectional study in Norwegian adolescents

Table 4 Spearman’s rho (\({\varvec{\rho}}\)) correlations among EDE-QS scores, SATAQ-4R scores and daily time spent on SM in girls and boys

	BMI (kg/m²)	EDE-QS (Mean)	Time spent on SM	SATAQ-4R (I) thin/low body fat	SATAQ-4R (I) muscular	SATAQ-4R (I) general attr	SATAQ-4R (P) family	SATAQ-4R (P) peers	SATAQ-4R (P) sign. others	SATAQ-4R (P) media
Girls (n = 792)
BMI (kg/m²)	–	0.30**	0.56	0.18**	0.16	0.07	0.28**	0.22**	0.25**	0.21**
EDE-QS (Mean)	0.30**	–	0.12**	0.73**	0.24**	0.50**	0.44**	0.60**	0.51**	0.61**
Time spent on SM	0.56	0.12**	–	0.17**	0.00	0.21**	0.21**	0.16**	0.11**	0.11*
Boys (n = 706)
BMI (kg/m²)	–	0.22**		0.15**	0.20**	0.03	0.07	0.08*	0.10**	0.08*
EDE-QS (Mean)	0.22**	–	0.15*	0.39**	0.34*	0.35**	0.31**	0.36**	0.40**	0.42**
Time spent on SM		0.15*	–	0.03	0.10**	0.16**	0.06	0.14**	0.12**	0.13**

Spearman’s rho correlations are reported. Correlation is significant at the 0.05* and 0.01** level (2-tailed)
BMI body mass index, EDE-QS eating disorder examination questionnaire short (the total mean score is used), SM social media, SATAQ-4R Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance-4-Revised, (I) internalization subscale, (P) pressure subscale.

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