The mediating role of emotion regulation skills in the relationship between psychological resilience an appearance-related social media awareness in young adults

The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of emotion regulation skills in the relationship between social media awareness and psychological resilience in young adults. Social media awareness refers to individuals' awareness of elements such as social norms and beauty standards and how these are percieved and internalized through social media. Psychological resilience is defined as the individuals' capacity to cope with stressful situations and develop resistance to negative experiences. As a result of the regression analyses, it was seen that emotion regulation skills significantly and positively predicted social media awareness related to appearance (β = -0.276, p < .001). Psychological resilience did not have a direct significant effect on this level of awareness (β = -0.098, p = .068). When emotion regulation skills were included in the model, the direct effect of psychological resilience lost its significance (β = 0.057, p = .343), whereas the effect of emotion regulation skills remained significant (β = -0.305, p < .001). The model explained 7.9% of the variance and was statistically significant. These findings suggest that the impact of psychological resiliance on social media awareness is mediated by emotion regulation skills. Individuals with stronger emotion regulation skils experience less psychological pressure from appareance ideals on social media, highlighting the protective role of these skilss in coping with apperance-related pressure in digital congests.