Hildebrandt Tom, Shiovitz Rachel, Alfano Lauren, Greif Rebecca
Eating & Weight Disorders Program, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1230, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Body Image. 2008 Sep;5(3):299-306. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.04.007. Epub 2008 Jul 22.
The purpose of the current study was to operationalize the phenomenon of body deception, describe its theoretical importance, and validate its existence in an experimental paradigm. The definition of body deception includes the intentional misrepresentation of information about appearance to others. The present study examined body deception in a controlled experimental study of male and female same-sex peer groups using a series of hierarchical linear models. Ninety male and 90 female undergraduates were randomized to an experimental same-sex peer group or individual control condition. The results suggested that both men and women used body deception among peers, but men's body deception was muscularity driven whereas women's was thinness driven. Body dissatisfaction was significantly predictive of the degree of body deception used by both genders and it was significantly related to peer group membership. An integrated model for the role of body deception in body image disturbance is proposed.
本研究的目的是对身体欺骗现象进行操作化，描述其理论重要性，并在实验范式中验证其存在。身体欺骗的定义包括故意向他人歪曲有关外表的信息。本研究在一项针对男性和女性同性同伴群体的对照实验研究中，使用一系列分层线性模型来检验身体欺骗。90名男性和90名女性本科生被随机分配到实验性同性同伴群体或个体对照条件。结果表明，男性和女性在同伴中都会使用身体欺骗，但男性的身体欺骗是由肌肉发达驱动的，而女性的则是由瘦驱动的。身体不满显著预测了两性使用身体欺骗的程度，并且它与同伴群体成员身份显著相关。提出了一个关于身体欺骗在身体形象障碍中作用的综合模型。
