School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China.
Body Image. 2024 Jun;49:101697. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101697. Epub 2024 Mar 8.
This study described muscularity teasing in both men and women and explored its associations with eating and body image disturbances in adults from China. A total of 900 Chinese adults (50% women) were recruited online. Correlation and regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationships between muscularity teasing and a battery of measures on eating and body image disturbances. Gender differences in the associations were examined. Men reported more muscularity teasing than women (31.6% men vs. 15.6% women; χ(1,N = 900) = 31.99, p < .001). Muscularity teasing was significantly and positively correlated with all measures in both men and women. Muscularity teasing explained significant, unique variance in all measures for men and women, except for body fat dissatisfaction in women, beyond covariates (i.e., age, body mass index, and weight teasing). The relationships between muscularity teasing and eating and body image disturbances were generally stronger in men than women. Findings further suggest that muscularity teasing is an important factor related to eating and body image disturbances in men and women, but muscularity teasing might be more detrimental to men's eating behaviors and body image. Future research is needed to further explore the directionality and mechanisms of the links between muscularity teasing and eating and body image disturbances.
本研究描述了男性和女性的肌肉发达嘲笑现象，并探讨了其与中国成年人的饮食和身体意象障碍的关联。共有 900 名中国成年人（50%为女性）通过网络招募。采用相关和回归分析来检验肌肉发达嘲笑与一系列饮食和身体意象障碍测量指标之间的关系。还检验了关联的性别差异。男性报告的肌肉发达嘲笑比女性多（男性 31.6%，女性 15.6%； χ(1,N = 900) = 31.99，p < .001）。肌肉发达嘲笑与男性和女性的所有测量指标均呈显著正相关。肌肉发达嘲笑在控制了协变量（即年龄、体重指数和体重嘲笑）后，能够解释男性和女性所有测量指标中显著的、独特的差异，除了女性的体脂不满。肌肉发达嘲笑与饮食和身体意象障碍之间的关系在男性中通常比女性更强。研究结果进一步表明，肌肉发达嘲笑是男性和女性饮食和身体意象障碍的一个重要因素，但肌肉发达嘲笑可能对男性的饮食行为和身体意象更有害。需要进一步的研究来探讨肌肉发达嘲笑与饮食和身体意象障碍之间的联系的方向和机制。
