School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia.
Body Image. 2016 Mar;16:70-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2015.11.006. Epub 2015 Dec 23.
The study investigated the effectiveness of two online resources aimed at improving women's knowledge of the variation in normal female genital appearance and their attitudes towards their own genitals. The first consisted of a photographic array of normal female genitals and the second consisted of a video addressing digital airbrushing of women's genitals in media images. A sample of 136 female undergraduate students were randomly assigned to view the photographs, video, both the photographs and video, or neither. The video significantly increased women's perceptions of genital appearance diversity as well as awareness of digital airbrushing of genital images. Owing to relatively low levels of genital appearance concern, there was no effect of either resource on women's attitudes towards their own genitals; however, women who viewed the video indicated they would pass on their knowledge to help other women. Our results suggest that an educational video could be a useful tool.
本研究调查了两种旨在提高女性对正常女性生殖器外观变化的认识和对自身生殖器态度的在线资源的有效性。第一个资源由一系列正常女性生殖器的照片组成，第二个资源由一个视频组成，内容涉及媒体图像中女性生殖器的数字修饰。研究人员随机抽取了 136 名女本科生，让她们观看照片、视频、照片和视频，或者两者都不看。视频显著提高了女性对生殖器外观多样性的认识，以及对生殖器图像数字修饰的认识。由于生殖器外观关注度相对较低，两种资源都没有对女性对自身生殖器的态度产生影响；然而，观看视频的女性表示，她们将传播自己的知识，以帮助其他女性。我们的研究结果表明，教育视频可能是一种有用的工具。
