Rate My Professor Veya Seekis

Dr. Veya Seekis is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University, where she completed her PhD in psychology. Her academic career at Griffith University includes serving as a Lecturer from June 2021 and advancing to Senior Lecturer. She convenes and lectures first-year introductory psychology courses and has taught in social psychology and adolescent development. Seekis's research centers on body image, self-compassion, and social media's influence on appearance concerns and mental health among young people. She examines measurement invariance of psychological scales across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups using datasets like the Body Image in Nature Survey. Her work includes developing and validating scales such as the Cosmetic Procedure Attitudes Scale and evaluating interventions like self-compassion workshops, social media detox strategies, and the Embrace Kids Classroom Program for pre-adolescents.

Seekis has authored 28 publications with 747 citations and 19,825 reads. Key works include 'The effectiveness of self-compassion and self-esteem writing tasks in reducing body image concerns' (Body Image, 2017), 'Appearance-related social networking sites and body image in young women: Testing an objectification-social comparison model' (Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2020), 'How exposure to body neutrality content on TikTok affects young women's body image and mood' (Body Image, 2023), 'To detox or not to detox? The impact of different approaches to social media detox strategies on body image and wellbeing' (2025), and 'Self-Compassion Around the World: Measurement Invariance of the Short Form of the Self-Compassion Scale (SCS-SF) Across 65 Nations' (2025). She contributes to the editorial board of Body Image journal, focusing on appearance-focused social media and self-compassion. Her research advances understanding of positive body image interventions and cross-cultural psychometrics, promoting healthier relationships with the body through self-compassion.