“Hey, Look at My Body!”: An exploratory study of body display on Facebook among Hong Kong young adults

Lik Sam Chan; Hing Weng Eric Tsang

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-8900-6.ch018

“Hey, Look at My Body!”: An exploratory study of body display on Facebook among Hong Kong young adults

Lik Sam Chan, Hing Weng Eric Tsang

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This article considers the phenomenon of online body display by users of social networking sites in Hong Kong. A survey of 392 young adults was conducted to investigate the relationships between narcissism, grandiose exhibitionism, body image satisfaction, perceived privacy risks, and online body display. A Body Display Index was developed to measure the perceived level of sexual explicitness of photographs shared by Facebook users. Grandiose exhibitionism, a sub-trait of narcissism, was found to be a stronger predictor of online body display than narcissism. The relationship between body image satisfaction and online body display was not significant, and no relationship was found between such displays and perceived privacy risks, thus implying a lack of social media-related privacy concerns among the respondents.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Internet and Technology Addiction: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Editors	Information Resources Management Association
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	302-319
Number of pages	18
ISBN (Electronic)	9781522589013
ISBN (Print)	9781522589006, 1522589007, 9781522591573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8900-6.ch018
Publication status	Published - May 2019

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“Hey, Look at My Body!”: An exploratory study of body display on Facebook among Hong Kong young adults. / Chan, Lik Sam; Tsang, Hing Weng Eric.
Internet and Technology Addiction: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice. ed. / Information Resources Management Association. IGI Global, 2019. p. 302-319.

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