As mídias sociais e a construção da autoestima em adolescentes: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

The present research sought to investigate the contingencies present in social interactions in digital social media, highlighting Instagram, and how those affect fruitfully and/or harmfully the self-esteem of adolescents. Aiming to discuss how the media affect the construction of self-esteem in adolescents, characterizing social media, with emphasis on Instagram, conceptualizing self-esteem in adolescents, according to Behavior Analysis. For that, a bibliographical review was carried out, in which the literature relevant to the topic was researched. Within this research, it was explained about what characterizes social media, clarifying about Instagram in a special way. Afterwards, it dealt with what Behavior Analysis understands by adolescence and by adolescent behavior. Then, self-esteem was characterized in order to clarify how this, in adolescents and as a behavior, is affected by social media. It is concluded that the theme proposed here has been treated more and more nowadays, but there is still room to be further explored and addressed.