Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, OISE/University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6, Canada.
Clinical Psychologist, Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, OISE/University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6, Canada.
Body Image. 2023 Mar;44:246-261. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2022.11.009. Epub 2022 Dec 22.
The developmental theory of embodiment (DTE) is a research-based theory of social factors that shape the experience of embodiment, a construct that is strongly correlated with body esteem and body appreciation. The DTE is anchored in prospective and retrospective qualitative research studies with cisgender girls and women of diverse backgrounds. This paper describes the first comprehensive quantitative study of factors in the social environment the DTE delineates as shaping the experience of embodiment involving a cross-sectional design, among 412 cisgender women. The 13 quantitative social factors correlated positively with the Experience of Embodiment Scale and accounted together for over 60% of its score variance. The findings of significant positive correlations between all social factors and of a large shared variance amongst these factors in a simultaneous multiple regression predicting the experience of embodiment are in line with the DTE and with a multi-level model of causality central to public health perspectives, whereby social structures and positions, such as those related to gender, shape multiple lower-level protective and risk factors. Future studies of the theory should include prospective designs with samples of varied backgrounds along different dimensions of social location.
具身发展理论（DTE）是一个基于研究的理论，探讨社会因素如何塑造具身体验，这一概念与身体自尊和身体欣赏密切相关。DTE 的基础是对跨性别女孩和不同背景的女性进行的前瞻性和回顾性定性研究。本文描述了第一个对 DTE 所描述的社会环境因素进行全面定量研究的综合研究，该研究采用横断面设计，涉及 412 名顺性别女性。13 个定量社会因素与具身体验量表呈正相关，共同解释了其评分方差的 60%以上。所有社会因素之间存在显著正相关的发现，以及在同时进行的多元回归预测具身体验时这些因素之间存在大量共享方差的发现，都与 DTE 以及公共卫生观点中至关重要的多层次因果关系模型一致，即社会结构和地位（如与性别相关的结构和地位）塑造了多个较低层次的保护和风险因素。该理论的未来研究应包括具有不同背景和不同社会地位维度样本的前瞻性设计。
