Watts Kaaren, Cranney Jacquelyn, Gleitzman Melanie
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Body Image. 2008 Dec;5(4):352-64. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2008.06.001. Epub 2008 Aug 27.
An affective priming task was used to determine whether females automatically evaluate body-related images, and to establish whether this is moderated by appearance schematicity, thin internalisation, body dissatisfaction, and dietary restraint. In a within participants design, the valence congruence of the prime and target pairs was manipulated, as was the interval between them. Undergraduate females (N=87, Experiment 1 and N=72, Experiment 2) individually selected colour images as the primes. Each prime was presented briefly, followed by a target word which the participant judged as "good" or "bad". The dependent variable was response latency to the target word. Automatic evaluation was evident; responding to congruent pairs was faster than responding to incongruent pairs. The individual difference variables were not related to automaticity. The findings suggest that brief encounters with body-related images are likely to produce automatic affective responses in young women irrespective of body-related concerns.
一项情感启动任务被用于确定女性是否会自动评估与身体相关的图像，并确定这是否受到外表图式性、瘦内化、身体不满和饮食限制的调节。在一项被试内设计中，启动刺激和目标刺激对的效价一致性以及它们之间的时间间隔都被进行了操控。本科女性（实验1中N = 87，实验2中N = 72）分别选择彩色图像作为启动刺激。每个启动刺激都被短暂呈现，随后是一个目标词，参与者要判断这个词是“好”还是“坏”。因变量是对目标词的反应潜伏期。自动评估是明显的；对一致对的反应比对不一致对的反应更快。个体差异变量与自动性无关。研究结果表明，与身体相关图像的短暂接触可能会在年轻女性中产生自动情感反应，而不论她们与身体相关的担忧如何。
