Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia.
Body Image. 2020 Mar;32:150-154. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2019.12.006. Epub 2020 Jan 31.
This experimental study examined the impact of attaching self-disclaimer captions (i.e., account holder's captions about the inauthenticity of their appearance) to idealized and edited social media images on 18- to 25-year-old Australian women's (N = 201) body dissatisfaction, mood, perceived realism of social media images, appearance comparisons, and impressions of the user. Participants were shown images of either: (1) an attractive woman, (2) the same woman with self-disclaimer captions, or (3) appearance-neutral images. Self-disclaimers did not ameliorate the higher body dissatisfaction and negative mood experienced by women who viewed idealized images. Images with self-disclaimers were also not perceived as less realistic, nor did women compare themselves less to these images than women who viewed the same images without self-disclaimers. The idealized woman in the images was, however, perceived as less warm, but equally moral and competent when viewed with self-disclaimers. These results suggest that self-disclaimers may not be effective at protecting young women from the harmful effects of unrealistic appearance ideals on social media.
这项实验研究考察了在理想化和编辑后的社交媒体图像上添加自 disclaimer 标题（即账户持有人关于其外观不真实性的标题）对 18 至 25 岁澳大利亚女性（N=201）的身体不满、情绪、感知到的社交媒体图像的真实性、外貌比较和对用户的印象的影响。参与者观看了以下图像中的一种：（1）有吸引力的女性，（2）带有自 disclaimer 标题的同一女性，或（3）外貌中性的图像。自 disclaimer 并没有减轻女性观看理想化图像时所经历的更高的身体不满和负面情绪。带有自 disclaimer 的图像也不会被认为不那么真实，女性也不会比观看没有自 disclaimer 的相同图像的女性更少地将自己与这些图像进行比较。然而，当看到带有自 disclaimer 的图像时，图像中的理想化女性被认为不那么温暖，但同样道德和有能力。这些结果表明，自 disclaimer 可能无法有效保护年轻女性免受社交媒体上不切实际的外貌理想带来的有害影响。
