Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
Body Image. 2013 Sep;10(4):489-94. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.04.005. Epub 2013 May 27.
Viewing thin models, pervasive in popular culture, is correlated with body dissatisfaction and anxiety in women. Whether or not the same is true when viewing healthy weight models is unknown. In this study we tested whether viewing healthy weight models increases the ideal female body size. Body image, anxiety, happiness and depression were measured in 44 female participants following viewing of images of thin or healthy weight models (within-subject separated by two weeks). We found that after viewing images of healthy weight models, women's body ideals (as measured by a participant-adjusted virtual model) were significantly larger than when the same women viewed images of very thin models. This effect was greatest in those women with the highest levels of baseline anxiety (as measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale). These results suggest that viewing healthy weight models results in more healthy body ideals than those typically promoted through media.
在流行文化中，瘦模特无处不在，这与女性的身体不满和焦虑有关。而观看健康体重模特的情况是否相同则不得而知。在这项研究中，我们测试了观看健康体重模特是否会增加理想女性体型的大小。在观看了瘦模特或健康体重模特的图片后（两周内进行了分组），对 44 名女性参与者的身体形象、焦虑、幸福感和抑郁程度进行了测量。我们发现，观看健康体重模特的图片后，女性的理想体型（通过参与者调整的虚拟模型进行测量）明显大于观看非常瘦模特图片时的体型。对于那些基线焦虑程度最高的女性（通过医院焦虑和抑郁量表进行测量）来说，这种影响最大。这些结果表明，与通过媒体通常宣传的体型相比，观看健康体重模特会产生更健康的身体理想。
