Department of Psychology, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK.
Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK.
Body Image. 2021 Jun;37:172-180. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.02.004. Epub 2021 Mar 11.
Ultra-thin fashion dolls may represent a risk factor for thin-ideal internalisation and body dissatisfaction amongst young girls. We asked thirty one 5- to 9-year-old girls to engage in interactive play with commercially available dolls which were either ultra-thin (Barbie and Monster High) or represented a putative realistic childlike shape (Lottie and Dora) and to indicate their perceived own-body size and ideal body size on an interactive computer task both before and after play. There was a significant interaction between testing phase and doll group such that playing with the ultra-thin dolls led to the girls' 'ideal self' becoming thinner. A further 46 girls played with the ultra-thin dolls and then played with either the same dolls again, the realistic childlike dolls, or with cars. Initial play with the ultra-thin dolls again produced a drop in perceived ideal own body size; however, no group showed any significant change in their body ideals during the additional play phase. These data indicate the potential benefit of dolls representing a realistic child body mass to young girls' body satisfaction and do not support the hypothesis that the negative impacts of ultra-thin dolls can be directly countered by other toys.
超瘦时尚娃娃可能是年轻女孩内化瘦理想和身体不满的一个风险因素。我们邀请了 31 名 5 至 9 岁的女孩与商业上可获得的娃娃进行互动游戏，这些娃娃要么是超瘦的（芭比和怪物高中），要么代表了一个假定的现实儿童形状（洛蒂和朵拉），并在玩游戏前后在互动计算机任务上表明他们感知到的自己的体型和理想体型。测试阶段和娃娃组之间存在显著的相互作用，即玩超瘦娃娃会使女孩的“理想自我”变得更瘦。另外 46 名女孩玩了超瘦娃娃，然后又玩了同样的娃娃、现实的儿童娃娃或汽车。再次玩超瘦娃娃会导致感知到的理想自己体型的下降；然而，在额外的游戏阶段，没有一个组的身体理想有任何显著变化。这些数据表明，代表现实儿童体重的娃娃对年轻女孩的身体满意度有潜在的好处，并且不支持这样的假设，即超瘦娃娃的负面影响可以直接被其他玩具抵消。
