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The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women’s Body Size
We investigated the relationships between healthy women’s estimates of their own body size, their body dissatisfaction, and how they subjectively judge the transition from normal to overweight in other women’s bodies (the “normal/overweight” boundary). We propose two complementary hypotheses. In the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120952/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35602723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.888904 |
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author | Cornelissen, Katri K. Brokjøb, Lise Gulli Gumančík, Jiří Lowdon, Ellis McCarty, Kristofor Irvine, Kamila R. Tovée, Martin J. Cornelissen, Piers Louis |
author_facet | Cornelissen, Katri K. Brokjøb, Lise Gulli Gumančík, Jiří Lowdon, Ellis McCarty, Kristofor Irvine, Kamila R. Tovée, Martin J. Cornelissen, Piers Louis |
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description | We investigated the relationships between healthy women’s estimates of their own body size, their body dissatisfaction, and how they subjectively judge the transition from normal to overweight in other women’s bodies (the “normal/overweight” boundary). We propose two complementary hypotheses. In the first, participants compare other women to an internalized Western “thin ideal,” whose size reflects the observer’s own body dissatisfaction. As dissatisfaction increases, so the size of their “thin ideal” reduces, predicting an inverse relationship between the “normal/overweight” boundary and participants’ body dissatisfaction. Alternatively, participants judge the size of other women relative to the body size they believe they have. For this implicit or explicit social comparison, the participant selects a “normal/overweight” boundary that minimizes the chance of her making an upward social comparison. So, the “normal/overweight” boundary matches or is larger than her own body size. In an online study of 129 healthy women, we found that both opposing factors explain where women place the “normal/overweight” boundary. Increasing body dissatisfaction leads to slimmer judgments for the position of the “normal/overweight” boundary in the body mass index (BMI) spectrum. Whereas, increasing overestimation by the observer of their own body size shifts the “normal/overweight” boundary toward higher BMIs. |
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spelling | pubmed-91209522022-05-21 The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women’s Body Size Cornelissen, Katri K. Brokjøb, Lise Gulli Gumančík, Jiří Lowdon, Ellis McCarty, Kristofor Irvine, Kamila R. Tovée, Martin J. Cornelissen, Piers Louis Front Psychol Psychology We investigated the relationships between healthy women’s estimates of their own body size, their body dissatisfaction, and how they subjectively judge the transition from normal to overweight in other women’s bodies (the “normal/overweight” boundary). We propose two complementary hypotheses. In the first, participants compare other women to an internalized Western “thin ideal,” whose size reflects the observer’s own body dissatisfaction. As dissatisfaction increases, so the size of their “thin ideal” reduces, predicting an inverse relationship between the “normal/overweight” boundary and participants’ body dissatisfaction. Alternatively, participants judge the size of other women relative to the body size they believe they have. For this implicit or explicit social comparison, the participant selects a “normal/overweight” boundary that minimizes the chance of her making an upward social comparison. So, the “normal/overweight” boundary matches or is larger than her own body size. In an online study of 129 healthy women, we found that both opposing factors explain where women place the “normal/overweight” boundary. Increasing body dissatisfaction leads to slimmer judgments for the position of the “normal/overweight” boundary in the body mass index (BMI) spectrum. Whereas, increasing overestimation by the observer of their own body size shifts the “normal/overweight” boundary toward higher BMIs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9120952/ /pubmed/35602723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.888904 Text en Copyright © 2022 Cornelissen, Brokjøb, Gumančík, Lowdon, McCarty, Irvine, Tovée and Cornelissen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Cornelissen, Katri K. Brokjøb, Lise Gulli Gumančík, Jiří Lowdon, Ellis McCarty, Kristofor Irvine, Kamila R. Tovée, Martin J. Cornelissen, Piers Louis The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women’s Body Size |
title | The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women’s Body Size |
title_full | The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women’s Body Size |
title_fullStr | The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women’s Body Size |
title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women’s Body Size |
title_short | The Effect of Own Body Concerns on Judgments of Other Women’s Body Size |
title_sort | effect of own body concerns on judgments of other women’s body size |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120952/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35602723 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.888904 |
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