我不只是胖，我还老了：身体意象研究是否忽视了“老了”这回事？
I'm not just fat, I'm old: has the study of body image overlooked "old talk"?
机构信息
Department of Psychology, One Trinity Place, Trinity University, 78212, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Center for Appearance Research, University of the West of England, Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY, Bristol, UK.
出版信息
J Eat Disord. 2013 Feb 21;1:6. doi: 10.1186/2050-2974-1-6. eCollection 2013.
BACKGROUND
Research indicates that body dissatisfaction is correlated with and often predictive of both physical and mental health problems. "Fat talk," a well-studied form of body image talk in adolescents and university-aged women, has been implicated as contributing to body dissatisfaction and mediating the relationship between body dissatisfaction and other mental health problems. Limited research, however, has investigated fat talk across the female lifespan. Further, consistent with most body image research, fat talk research solely focuses on the thin dimension of idealized female attractiveness, even though other dimensions may contribute to body dissatisfaction in women.
METHOD
The current study investigated whether or not "old talk," a hereto un-described form of body image talk, appears to be a parallel, but distinct, form of body image talk that taps into the young dimension of the thin-young-ideal standard of female beauty. An international, internet sample of women (aged 18-87, N = 914) completed questionnaires aimed at assessing fat talk, old talk, body image disturbance, and eating disorder pathology.
RESULTS
Results indicated that both fat talk and old talk were reported by women across the lifespan, although they evidenced different trajectories of frequency. Like fat talk, old talk was significantly correlated with body image disturbance and eating disorder pathology, albeit at a lower rate than fat talk in the total sample. Old talk was more highly correlated with ageing appearance anxiety than fat talk, and the correlation between old talk and body image disturbance and ED pathology increased with women's ages.
CONCLUSION
Results suggest that old talk is a form of body image talk that is related to but distinct from fat talk. Old talk appears to be similarly problematic to fat talk for women whose age increases their deviation from the thin-young-ideal. Further research into the phenomenon of old talk is warranted as is increased attention to fat talk across the full lifespan of women.
背景
研究表明，身体不满与身心健康问题密切相关，并且常常可以预测这些问题。“胖谈”是青少年和大学年龄段女性中一种研究充分的身体意象谈话形式，它被认为是导致身体不满的原因，并在身体不满与其他心理健康问题之间起中介作用。然而，关于女性整个生命周期中的“胖谈”，研究有限。此外，与大多数身体意象研究一致，“胖谈”研究仅关注理想化女性吸引力的瘦维度，即使其他维度可能会导致女性身体不满。
方法
本研究调查了“老谈”是否是一种相似但不同的身体意象谈话形式，这种形式是否与年轻的瘦-年轻-理想女性美的标准有关。一项针对国际互联网女性样本（年龄在 18-87 岁之间，N=914）的研究，完成了评估胖谈、老谈、身体意象障碍和饮食障碍病理的问卷。
结果
结果表明，女性在整个生命周期中都报告了胖谈和老谈，尽管它们的频率轨迹不同。与胖谈一样，老谈与身体意象障碍和饮食障碍病理显著相关，但在总样本中的相关性低于胖谈。老谈与与年龄相关的外貌焦虑的相关性高于胖谈，并且老谈与身体意象障碍和 ED 病理的相关性随着女性年龄的增长而增加。
结论
结果表明，老谈是一种身体意象谈话形式，与胖谈有关但又不同。对于那些年龄增长导致与瘦-年轻-理想标准偏差越大的女性来说，老谈与胖谈一样有问题。需要进一步研究老谈现象，并且需要更加关注女性整个生命周期中的胖谈。
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