Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Department of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Body Image. 2021 Sep;38:317-324. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.05.005. Epub 2021 Jun 1.
Verbal denigration of personal body size and shape ("fat talk") is correlated with, and can have a causal influence on body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. What is less clear is who is most likely to fat talk. To address this, Corning and Gondoli (2012) conducted a study confirming that a woman's body dissatisfaction directly predicted their fat talk. But this effect was scaled so that the likelihood of engaging in fat talk intensified if she had a stronger tendency to socially compare: the relationship was multiplicative. Here, we carried out two replications of Corning and Gondoli's (2012) study, the first with 189 UK participants and the second with 371 US participants. We found that multiple regression models predicting fat talk showed additive, but not multiplicative relationships. A robust Bayesian meta-analysis combining the results of our two studies with the results of the original study confirmed this. In conclusion, these studies show an additive relationship between fat talk and social comparison on fat talk.
口头贬低个人的体型和身材（“胖谈”）与身体不满和饮食失调有关，并且可能对其具有因果影响。但目前尚不清楚谁最有可能进行“胖谈”。为了解决这个问题，Corning 和 Gondoli（2012）进行了一项研究，证实女性对身体的不满直接预测了她们的“胖谈”。但这种影响是按比例放大的，如果她有更强的社会比较倾向，那么参与“胖谈”的可能性就会加剧：这种关系是相乘的。在这里，我们对 Corning 和 Gondoli（2012）的研究进行了两次复制，第一次有 189 名英国参与者，第二次有 371 名美国参与者。我们发现，预测“胖谈”的多元回归模型显示出的是相加关系，而不是相乘关系。对我们的两项研究的结果与原始研究的结果进行稳健的贝叶斯元分析证实了这一点。总之，这些研究表明“胖谈”与“胖谈”上的社会比较之间存在相加关系。
