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June 27, 2026Health Marketing QuarterlyOpen Access

Dental self-confidence in digital health marketing systems: Adolescent well-being and social media use

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KIKhaled IbrahimLMLisa S. McNeillLMLi Mei

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Overview

Examines how social media affects dental self-confidence among adolescents, suggesting implications for health marketing strategies.

Key Points

  • The study investigates the influence of social media on dental self-confidence and its psychological impacts on adolescents.
  • Data collected from 502 parent-child dyads in New Zealand.
  • Applied multivariate analysis and PLS-SEM to evaluate associations between variables.
  • Examined pathways linking dental self-confidence and psychological impacts.
  • Lower dental self-confidence is linked to greater psychological impact with social impact as the key pathway.
  • Active social media use weakens the protective association between dental self-confidence and psychological impact.
  • Findings propose new frameworks for understanding adolescent consumer vulnerability in health marketing.

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Ibrahim et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a3f69a5aea7db3c1954060fhttps://doi.org/10.1080/07359683.2026.2687296
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