Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Body Image. 2012 Mar;9(2):253-60. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.11.002. Epub 2011 Dec 6.
The present contribution bridges research on body image, self-esteem, and body recognition. Recent work in neuroscience indicates a superiority in the processing of self relative to others' body parts. The present contribution shows that this ability is not universal but it is qualified by individual differences in implicit and explicit self-esteem. In fact, two studies (n₁ = 41 and n₂ = 35) using two different paradigms in body recognition and direct and indirect measures of self-esteem reveal that this advantage in recognizing one's own body parts is associated with one's level of self-esteem. Moreover, it appears that measures of implicit and explicit self-esteem provide different contributions to self-body recognition abilities and that these contributions depend on how self-body recognition is assessed. Implications of these results are discussed notably in the perspective of research on body image.
本研究旨在探讨身体意象、自尊和身体认知之间的关系。神经科学的最新研究表明，个体在处理自我身体和他人身体部分时存在优势，本研究表明，这种能力并非普遍存在，而是受到个体内隐和外显自尊差异的影响。事实上，两项研究（n₁=41，n₂=35）分别使用两种不同的身体认知范式和直接及间接的自尊测量方法，揭示了个体对自身身体部位的识别优势与个体的自尊水平有关。此外，内隐和外显自尊的测量似乎对自我身体识别能力有不同的贡献，而这些贡献取决于如何评估自我身体识别。这些结果的意义在身体意象研究的视角下进行了讨论。
