Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States.
Body Image. 2011 Jun;8(3):216-23. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.04.003. Epub 2011 May 18.
Within dominant American culture, females often learn to view themselves from an observer's perspective and to treat themselves as objects to be looked at (i.e., self-objectification), which can result in negative outcomes. Body surveillance (the indicator of self-objectification) has been found to predict concern with weight/shape in predominantly Caucasian samples, but research has not yet examined the potential reciprocal relations between body surveillance and weight/shape concern. Participants were 226 women attending a Midwestern university (70 self-identified as African American and 156 as Caucasian) who provided data at two time points, spaced about 5 months apart. Results revealed that downward spirals of body surveillance and weight/shape concern were apparent for the Caucasian but not the African American women. However, there was evidence that body surveillance helped account for change in weight/shape concern for the African American women.
在占主导地位的美国文化中，女性通常学会从观察者的角度看待自己，并将自己视为被观察的对象（即自我客体化），这可能会导致负面后果。身体监测（自我客体化的指标）已被发现可预测以白种人为主的样本中对体重/体型的关注，但研究尚未检验身体监测与体重/体型关注之间潜在的相互关系。参与者为 226 名在中西部大学就读的女性（70 名自我认定为非裔美国人，156 名自我认定为白种人），她们在大约 5 个月的时间里分两次提供数据。结果表明，白种女性的身体监测和体重/体型关注呈下降趋势，但非裔美国女性则没有。然而，有证据表明，身体监测有助于解释非裔美国女性体重/体型关注的变化。
