Smartphone-Apps zur Verbesserung der Körperzufriedenheit?

Schmidt, Jennifer; Martin, Alexandra

doi:10.1007/s00278-021-00517-2

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“…Over repeated training visual search trials, participants gradually become quicker at detecting target stimuli, reflecting increased attentional processing of those targets (and other stimuli paired visually adjacent to them [ 55 ]). Training visual search tasks have been successful at inducing immediate changes in body dissatisfaction by increasing attention to socially accepting versus threatening faces [ 56 ] and to attractive versus unattractive body parts [ 57 ]; therefore, they may present a more effective method of attention training than training dot probe tasks. Visual search tasks also tend to produce more reliable estimates of attentional bias than dot probe tasks [ 58 , 59 ]; therefore, they could provide a more reliable assessment of whether training visual search tasks are effective at modifying attentional bias.…”

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The effect of an odd-one-out visual search task on attentional bias, body size adaptation, and body dissatisfaction

House,

Stephen,

Brooks

et al. 2024

R. Soc. Open Sci.

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Body image disturbance is a both a risk factor for, and a symptom of, many eating disorders and refers to the misperception of and dissatisfaction with one's own body. Women with high body dissatisfaction have been shown to direct more attention to low body mass index (BMI) bodies, which results in the overestimation of body size via body size adaptation. Therefore, attention may have a causal role in body image disturbance. We conducted a novel training visual search task with 142 young adult women who we trained to attend to either high or low BMI bodies. We assessed the effects of this training on attention to bodies of different sizes, body size adaptation, and body dissatisfaction. Women trained to attend to low BMI bodies decreased their perceptions of a ‘normal’ body size via adaptation from pre- to post-training ( p < 0.001); however, women trained to attend to high BMI bodies showed no change in their perception of a ‘normal’ body size. We found no lasting effects of the training on attention to body size or body dissatisfaction; however, our visual search task showed poor internal consistency as a measure of attention. These findings indicate that attention to low BMI bodies may exacerbate body image disturbance in women. However, more reliable measures of attentional are required to confirm this finding.

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