Interoceptive sensitivity, body image dissatisfaction, and body awareness in healthy individuals

Emanuelsen, Lene; Drew, Raechel; Köteles, Ferenc

doi:10.1111/sjop.12183

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“…In accordance to Emanuelsen et al ( 2015 ) who showed that body dissatisfaction is related to IAcc in healthy persons, we also observed inverse correlations between IAcc (during “Self”) and body dissatisfaction in this study. As depicted in Figure 2 , the pattern of relationship was quite similar both in the groups of anorexics and in the control group at T1, highlighting that the observed results are comparable between controls and patients, though due to the small sample size more data are needed to support this result.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…The body as object describes an attitude of evaluation of its appearance and a position as if seen through the eyes of others. Similarly, a negative relation has been shown between IAcc and body-image dissatisfaction (Emanuelsen et al, 2015 ) in a sample of 82 high school students (mean age 17). Of relevance, other studies have reported that levels of IAcc influence eating habits, e.g., IAcc is inversely related to intuitive eating (Herbert et al, 2013 ).…”

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confidence: 75%

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Atypical Self-Focus Effect on Interoceptive Accuracy in Anorexia Nervosa

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Herbert

Berberich³

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Background: Interoceptive abilities are known to be affected in anorexia nervosa (AN). Previous studies could show that private self-focus can enhance interoceptive accuracy (IAcc) in healthy participants. As body dissatisfaction is high in AN, confrontation with bodily features such as the own face might have a directly opposed effect in AN. Whether patients with AN can benefit from self-focus in their IAcc and whether this pattern changes over the time-course of cognitive behavioral therapy was investigated in this study.Methods: Fifteen patients with AN from the Psychosomatic Clinic in Windach were assessed three times in the time course of a standardized cognitive-behavioral therapy. They were compared to 15 controls, recruited from Ulm University and tested in a comparable setting. Both groups performed the heartbeat perception task assessing IAcc under two conditions either enhancing (“Self”) or decreasing (“Other”) self-focused attention. Furthermore, body dissatisfaction was assessed by a subscale of the Eating Disorder (ED) Inventory 2.Results: Patients with AN scored higher in IAcc when watching others’ faces as compared to one’s own face while performing the heartbeat perception task. The opposite pattern was observed in controls. IAcc remained reduced in AN as compared to controls in the time-course of cognitive-behavioral therapy, while body-dissatisfaction improved in AN. High body dissatisfaction was related to poorer IAcc in the “Self” condition.Conclusions: Our findings suggest that using self-focused attention reduces IAcc in AN while the opposite pattern was observed in controls. Confronting anorexic patients with bodily features might increase body-related avoidance and therefore decrease IAcc. The current study introduces a new perspective concerning the role of interoceptive processes in AN and generates further questions regarding the therapeutic utility of methods targeting self-focus in the treatment of AN.

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confidence: 75%

Atypical Self-Focus Effect on Interoceptive Accuracy in Anorexia Nervosa

Pollatos

Herbert

Berberich³

et al. 2016

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Reliability and validity is firmly established and the BIQ correlates strongly with other measures of body image such as the Body Areas Satisfaction Scale (BASS), Situational Inventory of Body-Image Dysphoria (SIBID), and the Appearance Schemas Inventory (cash & szymanski 1995). Reliability of the Hungarian version was appropriate in a past study (emanueLsen et al 2015) and also good in the present study (0.81).…”

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confidence: 74%

“…The BAQ is con sidered a reliable and valid instrument for measuring self-reported attentiveness to normal bodily processes (mehLing et al 2009). The Hungarian version showed good validity and reliability in past studies (emanueLsen et al 2015;köTeLes 2014). In the present study, the internal consistency of the scale was 0.89.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mediators between Yoga Practice and Psychological Well-Being: Mindfulness, Body Awareness, and Satisfaction with Body Image

Tihanyi¹,

Böőr²,

Emanuelsen³

et al. 2016

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Regular yoga practice was connected to higher levels of psychological well-being in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. However, the psychological mechanisms of this connection are still unexplained. In the present cross-sectional questionnaire study, hypothesised mediating effects of body awareness, satisfaction with body image, and mindfulness were investigated. 203 healthy adults (183 females, mean age: 36.8 ± 10.03 years) practicing yoga at an advanced level were involved in the study. Participants completed online questionnaires assessing body awareness (BAQ), dissatisfaction with body image (BIQ), mindfulness (MAAS) and well-being (WHO-5). Body awareness, body image dissatisfaction and mindfulness showed significant correlations with the weekly frequency of yoga practice as well as with psychological well-being. Body awareness, body image and mindfulness mediated the connection between yoga practice and well-being. In the regression analysis, body image dissatisfaction and body awareness remained connected to well-being even after controlling for practice frequency, mindfulness, gender and age. According to these results, body awareness, body image satisfaction and mindfulness are mediators of the connection between yoga practice and well-being.

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“…For example, Ainley and Tsakiris (2013) showed that the degree to which individuals are aware of their inner body signals (i.e., Interoceptive Accuracy, IAcc) is inversely correlated with selfobjectification, which is the tendency to experience one's body as an object (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). Others have found an inverse relationship with body-image satisfaction (Emanuelsen, Drew, & Kӧteles, 2014): in two samples of healthy participants, results showed that lower interoceptive accuracy, measured using the heartbeat perception task, is associated with higher body dissatisfaction, as evaluated using the Body Image Ideals Questionnaire by Cash and Szymanski (1995). These observations suggest that interoceptive processing extends from the basic levels of multisensory integration to the conscious (affective) attitudes that we hold about our body, highlighting the role of interoception in different hierarchical levels of body-representations.…”

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confidence: 99%

Can you feel the body that you see? On the relationship between interoceptive accuracy and body image

Zamariola

Cardini

Mian³

et al. 2017

Body Image

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Interoception and exteroception for body signals are two different ways of perceiving the self: the first from within, the second from outside. We investigated the relationship between Interoceptive Accuracy (IAcc) and external perception of the body and we tested if seeing the body from an external perspective can affect IAcc. Fifty-two healthy female subjects performed a standard heartbeat perception task to assess the IAcc, before and after the Body Image Revealer (BIR), which is a body perception task designed to assess the different aspects of body-image. The performance of the lower IAcc group in the heartbeat perception task significantly improved after the exteroceptive task. These findings highlight the relations between interoceptive and exteroceptive body-representations, supporting the view that these two kinds of awareness are linked and interact with each other.

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Interoceptive sensitivity, body image dissatisfaction, and body awareness in healthy individuals

Cited by 72 publications

References 78 publications

Atypical Self-Focus Effect on Interoceptive Accuracy in Anorexia Nervosa

Atypical Self-Focus Effect on Interoceptive Accuracy in Anorexia Nervosa

Mediators between Yoga Practice and Psychological Well-Being: Mindfulness, Body Awareness, and Satisfaction with Body Image

Can you feel the body that you see? On the relationship between interoceptive accuracy and body image

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