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Background@#Acne vulgaris (AV) is a chronic inflammatory skin condition that is non-life-threatening but may cause significant psychological morbidity regardless of severity. An extreme case of this is depicted in body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), which is often an undiagnosed condition presenting with excessive preoccupation of perceived flaws not observable by others. With the increasing popularity of social media throughout the years, there has been budding researches exploring its psychological implications, particularly on “selfies” and its possible association with self-image and body dysmorphia.@*Objectives@#To compare body dysmorphic symptoms and selfie behavior between patients with mild AV versus those without AV. Methods This is a single-center, cross-sectional study among patients with mild AV and those without AV seen through a teledermatology platform of a tertiary hospital from April to June 2022. @*Results@#A total of 207 patients were included in this study – 107 patients with mild AV and 100 patients without AV. A significantly higher proportion of BDD symptoms was seen in patients with mild AV using either Body Dysmorphic Disorder Questionnaire-Dermatology Version (BDDQ-DV) (31%) and Dysmorphic Concern Questionnaire (DCQ) (14%). No significant difference was noted in terms of selfie behavior between the groups. @*Conclusions@#BDD symptoms were significantly more prevalent in patients who have mild AV despite having lesions that are negligible and clinically not apparent. This highlights the importance of dermatologists’ knowledge that BDD may cause distress and impairment and should be taken into consideration in terms of management. Interestingly, selfie behavior of patients with mild AV and without AV had no significant difference.
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Acne Vulgaris , Social MediaABSTRACT
Background: Selfie’ means “A photograph that one has taken of oneself or a self portrait photograph typically taken with a smart phone or digital camera and shared via social media”. Considering the dependency on Internet and selfie taking behavior among professional students, the study was undertaken. Aims and Objective- to determine the demographic profile of selfie users and different variables related to selfie taking and posting and its association with risky dangerous selfie. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted among 220 undergraduate medical students were using smartphone. Data was collected and analyzed using SPSS version 21. Results: Male students of middle class family of urban areas were more involved in taking selfie. Females were comparatively spending more time (2-3 hrs) on Internet (X2 =19.494 and p = .001).Total 14% students were taking 3-5 selfie and posted on social media(Statistically significant,X2 =7.882,p =0.019). 19(8.63%) participants admitted of taking dangerous selfie of which male 13(14.0%) more than female 06(8.4%). Conclusion: Age and gender affects the number of selfies one clicks. This is developing a new mental disorder ‘selfitis’ as well as desire to take dangerous selfie. There is need of health awareness programme, IEC regarding importance of healthy life style.
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Background: Selfie’s are self-portrait taken to admire the excessive pride in one’s own appearance. When these selfies are taken persistently in increased numbers with futile efforts to stop taking them is called as “SELFIE ADDICTION”. There is an uncontrollable craving for taking selfie’s which has a great impact on the life style modifications substantially in the adolescent age group. This problem has just commenced but it has disseminated rapidly to a greater magnitude.Methods: This study was done as a community based cross sectional study at Pondicherry, Chennai and Kadaloor district during November 2015 and February 2016 with the objectives of assessing the prevalence and its risk factors of the Selfie addiction among adolescents. Individuals of adolescent age group were randomly selected and the data were collected using direct questionnaire method with proper informed consent. The data was entered in MS excel sheet and analysis was done using SPSS software.Results: A total of 766 college students were interviewed of which 53% were males with the mean age of 19 years. The purposes of taking selfies were time pass (46%), to admire themselves (14.5%), to post in social network sites (23.7%). Among the study participants 87% of them had the habit of taking selfies regularly using mobile phones and the number of selfies per minute varied from 2 to 10 per minute. The prevalence of selfie addiction was present among 111 (14.5%) and it was significantly associated with gender, higher version mobile phone users, early morning selfie takers, chronic mobile users.Conclusions: The prevalence of selfie addiction among adolescent population in our study was moderately high and hence interventions should be made to create cognizance among the general population about the risk factors and its consequences.
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Contemporaneamente, a imagem tem ganhado destaque na vida dos indivíduos. Tal fato torna-se flagrante no fenômeno selfie. Neste, indivíduos autorretratam-se em diversas situações a fim de compartilhar tais conteúdos em redes sociais virtuais. As imagens tornam-se, portanto, relevantes à compreensão do homem contemporâneo, isto é, de uma subjetividade que se constitui na tela do computador, do smartphone etc. Indagamo-nos: como a pesquisa em Psicologia tem se ocupado da delicada tarefa de ler uma imagem? Neste trabalho, buscamos explorar possibilidades de investigação de imagens na Psicologia, por meio de uma base teórico-metodológica alicerçada na Teoria Crítica da Escola de Frankfurt. Optamos por fazer referência aos selfies, pois estes são paradigmáticos da produção imagética atual da web. Abordaremos aspectos teórico-metodológicos da Teoria Crítica no trabalho com selfies, bem como discorreremos acerca dos desafios encontrados na análise de imagens. Apontaremos caminhos possíveis no manejo destes desafios, tendo por base a Teoria Crítica. Como resultado, a apropriação desta pela investigação em Psicologia propicia sentido prático ao trabalho teórico, assim como aprimoramentos da teoria pela prática. Ainda, a Teoria Crítica fomenta um olhar acurado a detalhes reveladores do todo social, permitindo ao pesquisador vagar como o flanêur de Benjamin pela transitoriedade do agora.
Nowadays, image has become an important part of individual's life. This fact gets obvious on selfie phenomenon. On that, individuals self-portrait themselves in many situations to share those contents at social media. Images become, therefore, relevant to contemporary man's comprehension, in other words, they become relevant to the comprehension of a subjectivity that constitutes itself on screen computer's screen, smartphone's screen etc. We ask ourselves: how psychology's research has occupied itself with such delicate work as an image reading? In this paper, we seek to explore image investigation's possibilities through the theoretical methodological base of Frankfurt's School Critical Theory. We choose to refer to selfies, because they are paradigmatic at web's nowadays' image production. We will approach theoretical methodological aspects on selfie reading and elaborate on image analysis' challenges. We will point possible paths on this challenges' handling through Critical Theory. As result, its appropriation by Psychology propitiates practical sense to theoretical work and ameliorations to theory through praxis. Still, Critical Theory foments an accurate look to social whole's revealing details, allowing the researcher to drift as Benjamin's flanêur into now's transience.