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Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.  \nThis article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.  \nDepartment of Communication Studies, School of Languages and Communication Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China; [xxzhang1@bjtu.edu.cn](xxzhang1@bjtu.edu.cn)  \n* Correspondence: [zhangzx@bjtu.edu.cn](zhangzx@bjtu.edu.cn)  \nAbstract  \nObjectives: Exposure to appearance‑focused social media often leads to body image disturbance among young women. One promising intervention to lessen this nega‑ tive impact is mindfulness meditation. This study aimed to determine whether a brief mindfulness meditation intervention could mitigate the adverse effects of exposure to appearance‑focused social media content on body image and mood in young Chinese women. Methods: In an online randomized controlled trial, 168 women aged 18–35 years were randomly assigned to either an intervention group (n = 86) that listened to aten‑minute mindfulness meditation audio or to a control group (n = 82) that listened to a ten‑minute recorded natural history text. After listening to the audio, participants viewed idealized body images on Xiaohongshu and compared themselves to these im‑ ages. Outcome measures included state body dissatisfaction and negative mood. Data were collected at baseline (T0), post‑intervention (T1), and post‑exposure to images (T2) . Results: At T0, groups did not differ in age, BMI, education, body dissatisfaction, or neg‑ ative mood (all p > 0.05) . From T0 to T1, both groups showed significant improvements in body dissatisfaction and mood. The intervention group’s scores decreased significantly (p = 0.008; p \u003C 0.01), and the control group also showed significant improvements on both outcome measures (both p \u003C 0.001) . However, when exposed to the idealized images, only the intervention group maintained its improvements, with no significant change in body dissatisfaction or mood (p = 0.178 and p = 0.310, respectively) from T1 to T2, whereas the control group’s scores worsened significantly on both outcome measures (p \u003C 0.001 for both) . Conclusions: These findings suggest that even a brief mindfulness meditation in‑ tervention may buffer against the negative effects of idealized social media content on body image and mood.  \nKeywords: body image; mindfulness meditation; appearance‑focused social media; young women; body dissatisfaction; negative mood; Xiaohongshu (RED); brief intervention; randomized controlled trial; China  \n1. Introduction  \nAs of early 2025, over 5 billion people were active social media users, representing roughly 62.3% of the world’s population [1] . These social media platforms are dominated by highly curated visual content, which is now recognized as a key driver of appearance‑ related pressures [2] . Frequent exposure to appearance‑focused social media tends to  \nwiden the perceived discrepancies between one’s own appearance and societal beauty ide‑ als, thereby undermining body satisfaction and mood among young women [3] .  \nThe social media landscape in China differs significantly from that of Western coun‑ tries. In China, western social media platforms such as Instagram and Pinterest are inacces‑ sible due to government restrictions, which has created opportunities for domestic alterna‑ tives like Xiaohongshu to gain popularity and flourish [4] . Xiaohongshu blends features of Instagram and Pinterest, focusing on image‑centric posts and aspirational lifestyle content. It now boasts around 300 million monthl","cbCaijbFxha0WC7Q","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijbFxha0WC7Q","pdf",1148641,18,"English","# Abstract\n## Objectives\n## Methods\n## Results\n## Conclusions\n# Introduction","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the study address for Chinese young women?\",\"answer\":\"The study addresses how exposure to appearance-focused social media can cause body image disturbances and negative mood in young women.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the mindfulness meditation intervention implemented in the trial?\",\"answer\":\"Participants in the intervention group listened to a ten-minute mindfulness meditation audio, while the control group listened to a ten-minute recorded natural history text.\"},{\"question\":\"What happened after participants were exposed to idealized body images?\",\"answer\":\"After viewing idealized images, the intervention group maintained its improvements in body dissatisfaction and mood, while the control group showed significant worsening on both outcomes.\"}]","Brief Mindfulness Meditation Protects Chinese Young Women’s Body Image from Appearance-Focused Social Media Exposure - An Online Randomized Controlled Trial | PDF",1790763508,45]