Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine whether selfie editing mediates the relationship between perfectionistic self-presentation and disordered eating attitudes, and to determine whether internalization of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance moderates the significant mediation effects identified. Participants were 253 Korean female high school students and they completed measures of perfectionist self-presentation, the sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, selfie editing, and disordered eating attitudes. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS 25.0 and PROCESS macro(Hayes, 2013). Results indicated that perfectionistic self-presentation was positively related to disordered eating attitudes and this relationship was mediated by selfie editing. Furthermore, internalization of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance moderated the relationship between selfie editing and disordered eating attitudes. Last, internalization of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance moderated the indirect relation between perfectionistic self-presentation and disordered eating attitudes via selfie editing. Based on the results, the implication of the results and limitations of the study were discussed.