School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Body Image. 2022 Sep;42:276-286. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.06.002. Epub 2022 Jul 13.
Today, many women are driven to subscribe to a more athletically oriented appearance ideal hallmarked by muscle tone (referred to as athletic- or fit-looking). However, the constellation of unhealthy eating and exercise behaviors that may accompany the pursuit of toned muscularity among women is not yet well characterized. To address this knowledge gap, our study evaluated the associations among the female drive for toned muscularity and both thinness-oriented disordered eating behaviors (e.g., dietary restriction) and muscularity-oriented disordered eating behaviors (e.g., excessive scrutiny of macro-nutrient values of food), as well as dimensions of compulsive exercise. Participants were 388 Australian undergraduate women who completed an online questionnaire including self-report measures of said constructs. Hierarchical regression models were used to determine whether the drive for toned muscularity accounted for unique variance in eating and exercise behaviors after adjusting for theoretically relevant covariates. Results indicated independent relationships between the drive for toned muscularity and several facets of thinness- and muscularity-oriented disordered eating, as well as compulsive exercise (e.g., exercise rigidity). Our findings further contribute to an emerging literature illustrating that women driven to attain a toned appearance may be vulnerable to engaging in a wide range of maladaptive eating and exercise practices.
如今，许多女性都追求一种更具运动感的理想外观，其特点是肌肉线条（被称为运动型或健康型）。然而，女性为了追求肌肉线条可能会伴随一些不健康的饮食和运动行为，而这些行为的特征尚未得到很好的描述。为了填补这一知识空白，我们的研究评估了女性对肌肉线条的追求与以下几个方面之间的关联：倾向于瘦的饮食失调行为（如节食）和倾向于肌肉的饮食失调行为（如过度关注食物的宏观营养素值），以及强迫性运动的维度。参与者是 388 名澳大利亚本科女性，她们完成了一份在线问卷，其中包括上述结构的自我报告衡量标准。分层回归模型用于确定在调整了理论相关协变量后，对肌肉线条的追求是否能解释饮食和运动行为的独特差异。结果表明，对肌肉线条的追求与瘦和肌肉倾向的饮食失调以及强迫性运动的几个方面（如运动僵化）之间存在独立的关系。我们的研究结果进一步说明了一个新出现的文献，即追求紧致外观的女性可能容易出现一系列不良的饮食和运动习惯。
