Donovan Caroline L, Uhlmann Laura
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.
Eat Behav. 2022 Dec;47:101678. doi: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2022.101678. Epub 2022 Oct 18.
Understanding the mechanisms through which internalisation of societal body standards lead to negative outcomes for women is important to inform prevention and treatment strategies targeting female body image issues and problematic eating and exercise behaviours. This study investigated the mediating roles of body surveillance and social comparison on the relationship between fit-ideal internalisation and a range of negative eating and body image related outcomes. Participants were 448 females, aged 16-25 years who completed self-report measures of fit-ideal internalisation, body surveillance, social comparison, body dissatisfaction, dieting, bulimic behaviours and compulsive exercise. Consistent with hypotheses, the results of parallel mediation analyses suggested that both body surveillance and social comparison mediated the relationship between fit-ideal internalisation and body dissatisfaction, dieting and bulimic behaviours. However, only social comparison was found to mediate the relationship between fit-ideal internalisation and compulsive exercise. The results suggest both body surveillance and social comparison are mechanisms by which fit internalisation detriments women's body image, making them potentially useful treatment targets for future research.
了解社会身体标准内化对女性产生负面影响的机制，对于制定针对女性身体形象问题以及不良饮食和运动行为的预防和治疗策略至关重要。本研究调查了身体监测和社会比较在理想身材内化与一系列与饮食和身体形象相关的负面结果之间关系中的中介作用。参与者为448名年龄在16至25岁之间的女性，她们完成了关于理想身材内化、身体监测、社会比较、身体不满、节食、暴食行为和强迫性运动的自我报告测量。与假设一致，平行中介分析结果表明，身体监测和社会比较均介导了理想身材内化与身体不满、节食和暴食行为之间的关系。然而，仅发现社会比较介导了理想身材内化与强迫性运动之间的关系。研究结果表明，身体监测和社会比较都是理想身材内化损害女性身体形象的机制，这使得它们有可能成为未来研究中有用的治疗靶点。
