کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
909696 917304 2009 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The meaning of beauty: Implicit and explicit self-esteem and attractiveness beliefs in body dysmorphic disorder
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The meaning of beauty: Implicit and explicit self-esteem and attractiveness beliefs in body dysmorphic disorder
چکیده انگلیسی

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is characterized by imagined or slight defects in one's appearance. We evaluated implicit and explicit biases among individuals diagnosed with BDD (n = 21), individuals with subclinical BDD symptoms (n = 21), and healthy control participants (n = 21). Specifically, we used the Implicit Association Test [IAT; Greenwald, A. G., McGhee, D. E., & Schwartz, J. L. K. (1998). Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: the implicit association test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1464–1480] to examine automatic associations related to self-esteem, associations between attractive and important, and a physical attractiveness stereotype (associations between attractive and competent). BDD participants had significantly lower implicit self-esteem, relative to control participants, and the subclinical BDD participants were intermediate between these groups. Although no group differences were observed on the implicit Attractive Important IAT; as predicted, BDD participants had significantly stronger implicit associations between attractive and competent than the other groups, in line with a common stereotype about physical attractiveness. Both the Attractive Competent IAT and Self-Esteem IAT were significant predictors of BDD symptom severity, and distress and avoidance during a mirror exposure task. Findings are discussed in light of cognitive-behavioral models of BDD.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - Volume 23, Issue 5, June 2009, Pages 694–702
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