Correlation between social media usage and body perception with possible orthorexia nervosa covering i̇stanbul gelişim university students

The concept of social media, which is mentioned with many definitions and concepts, is one of the formations that profoundly influences today's world and operates in many subjects from the daily habits, tastes, social relations and business lives of individuals. As a result, many new concepts, problems and formations that did not exist before have emerged. This study was conducted to examine the relationship of social media use with body perception and possible orthorexia. The universe of the research consists of 148 randomly selected Gelişim University students. In this study based on the 'voluntary' participation of the students, information was given to the students along with their consent form. In order to measure the relationship to the study, the individuals were asked questions about the Ortho-11 Scale, Bergen Social Media Scale, Health Anxiety Scale, Body Perception Scale, and social media in sociodemographic form to understand their interactions. The data obtained from the sample were analyzed with the SPSS 24 program. According to the results obtained; 50 percent of the respondents were women, 50 percent were men, 71.6 percent were between the ages of 18-22, 21.6 percent were between 23-27 years old, 5.4 percent were between 28-32, 7 percent were It was determined that they were between the ages of 33-37 and the remaining participants were 38 years old and above. It was concluded that orthorexia and social media have a weak relationship, and body perception predicts orthorexic tendencies. However, it was observed that the gender factor did not differentiate ON. In addition, a weak relationship was found between health anxiety and social media use.