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With the spread of technology and the internet, the use of social media networks has also begun to increase. It is known that the widely used social media networks such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter have a significant impact on the attitudes and emotions of young people. This study aims to investigate whether there is a significant difference between body perceptions and self-sufficiency beliefs of adolescents who use and do not use Instagram. According to the Relational Scanning Model, a total of 790 high school students, including 63.7 percent women and 36.3 percent men, participated in this study. The data of the study was collected through the body perception scale, the general self-sufficiency scale and the personal information form. Analysis used frequency distribution, arithmetic average, t test for independent samples and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA). According to the findings obtained, the overall self-sufficiency and subdimensions have not shown significant differences according to the status of use of Instagram; but the perception of the body has shown significant differences. According to this, the body perception score of adolescents using Instagram is higher. When adolescents who use and don’t use Instagram compared to each other by gender, the average of men in both groups was significantly higher than women. According to the use situation of Facebook, it has been achieved that both body perception points and general self-sufficiency sub-dimensional points show significant differences. The findings obtained from the research were discussed alongside the area and presented in recommendations.

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