School of Psychology, Flinders University, Australia.
Discipline of Health & Exercise Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia; SHAPE Research Centre, Flinders University, Australia.
Body Image. 2017 Sep;22:65-71. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2017.06.001. Epub 2017 Jun 24.
Recent studies have documented a shift in the cultural ideal of physical attractiveness, with women subscribing to a visibly toned ideal that emphasises health and fitness. The present study experimentally investigated the impact of athletic and muscular fitness-idealised images compared to traditional thin ideal images on women's body dissatisfaction and exercise behaviour, under the framework of Social Comparison Theory. Participants were 106 female undergraduate students randomly assigned to view one of three sets of images (thin ideal, athletic ideal, or muscular ideal) followed by a bout of exercise. Acute exposure to athletic ideal and thin ideal images led to increased body dissatisfaction, but exposure to muscular ideal images did not. Relative to thin ideal images, fitness-idealised images did not motivate participants to engage in higher levels of exercise suggesting that this type of fitness inspiration might not motivate actual exercise behaviour.
最近的研究记录了身体吸引力的文化理想发生了转变，女性更倾向于明显的健康和健身的理想化体型。本研究在社会比较理论的框架下，通过实验研究了与传统的瘦理想形象相比，运动和肌肉理想化形象对女性身体不满和运动行为的影响。参与者为 106 名女性本科大学生，随机分配观看三组图像（瘦理想、运动理想或肌肉理想）之一，然后进行运动。急性暴露于运动理想和瘦理想图像会导致身体不满增加，但暴露于肌肉理想图像不会。与瘦理想图像相比，理想化的健身形象并没有促使参与者进行更高水平的运动，这表明这种健身激励可能不会促使实际的运动行为。
