Motives for using social networking sites: a uses & gratifications perspective amongst people with eating disorder symptoms

Abstract Studies investigating motives for social networking sites (SNS) use amongst people with eating disorder (ED) symptoms are scarce. The uses and gratifications theory states that people actively select media content to gratify their individual needs and this may help to explain why individual...

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Published in:	Journal of Eating Disorders
Main Authors:	Alexandra E. Dingemans, Jolanda Veldhuis, Irene Lähde
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2023-12-01
Subjects:	Social networking sites Eating disorders Uses and gratifications theory Readiness to change
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00946-1