The University of Notre Dame, Australia, Fremantle, Australia.
Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia.
Atten Percept Psychophys. 2022 May;84(4):1069-1076. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02466-7. Epub 2022 Mar 30.
Over the past 30 years, attentional bias for body shape and weight content has been implicated in the precipitation and maintenance of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. Although the existence of this bias toward body stimuli is well-established in female populations, it is comparatively understudied in men. This review aimed to examine the nature of this visual attentional bias toward male bodies in male samples across a range of different attentional paradigms, including eye-tracking, dot-probe, and the visual search task. Results were heterogenous, finding some evidence that men with higher body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms demonstrated an attentional bias toward desirable bodies of other men, and undesirable features of their own bodies. These results suggest that schematic cognitive models of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders body may also be applicable to men, however more research is needed.
在过去的 30 年中，对体型和体重内容的注意力偏向被认为是导致身体不满和饮食失调的发生和维持的原因。尽管女性群体中存在这种对身体刺激的偏见已得到充分证实，但男性群体中对其进行研究相对较少。本综述旨在通过一系列不同的注意范式（包括眼动追踪、点探测和视觉搜索任务），在男性样本中检查男性对男性身体的这种视觉注意力偏向的本质。结果存在异质性，有一些证据表明，身体不满和饮食障碍症状较高的男性对其他男性的理想体型以及自身身体的不理想特征表现出注意力偏向。这些结果表明，身体不满和饮食失调的图式认知模型可能也适用于男性，但是还需要更多的研究。
