School of Psychology and Sport Science, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Centre for Psychological Medicine, Perdana University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.
Body Image. 2021 Dec;39:305-312. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2021.10.004. Epub 2021 Nov 5.
Studies have suggested that body image is associated with dating anxiety, but are limited by small sample sizes, singular operationalisations of body image, and a lack of consideration of the concurrent effects of social physique anxiety. To overcome these gaps in the literature, we asked an online sample of 501 heterosexual emerging adults from the United Kingdom (age M = 21.16, 50.3% women) to complete measures of multidimensional body image, social physique anxiety, and dating anxiety. Correlational analyses indicated that more negative body image and social physique anxiety were both significantly associated with greater dating anxiety. However, in hierarchical regressions, the variance accounted for by body image variables was largely non-significant and weak after accounting for the effects of social physique anxiety. In exploratory analyses, we found that social physique anxiety mediated the relationship between the body image facet of appearance orientation and dating anxiety. These results highlight the importance of developing targeted interventions to reduce social physique anxiety and unhealthy appearance orientation in heterosocial dating contexts.
研究表明，体像与约会焦虑有关，但受到样本量小、体像单一操作性定义以及缺乏对社会体型焦虑的并发影响的考虑的限制。为了克服文献中的这些差距，我们要求来自英国的 501 名异性新兴成年人（年龄 M=21.16，女性占 50.3%）在线完成多维体像、社会体型焦虑和约会焦虑的测量。相关分析表明，更消极的体像和社会体型焦虑都与更大的约会焦虑显著相关。然而，在分层回归中，体像变量解释的方差在很大程度上没有统计学意义，并且在考虑了社会体型焦虑的影响后很微弱。在探索性分析中，我们发现社会体型焦虑中介了体像方面的外貌取向与约会焦虑之间的关系。这些结果强调了在异性社交约会环境中，开发有针对性的干预措施来减少社会体型焦虑和不健康的外貌取向的重要性。
