Effects of perspective taking on attention bias to body-related information among junior high school students with body image disturbance.
Acta Psychol (Amst)
; 243: 104131, 2024 Mar.
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| ID: mdl-38219429
ABSTRACT
Using lexical judgment tasks, the present study explored whether perspective taking affected attention bias to body-related information among junior high school students with body image disturbance. Experiment 1 examined the junior high school students' attention bias to body schema-related words; the results showed the body image disturbance group responded significantly more quickly to negative body schema-related words than positive words, whereas the control group did not show a significant difference between positive and negative words. In Experiment 2, participants were asked to judge whether the positive or negative body schema-related words were suitable to describe themselves, when adopting their own perspective or that of another person. The results showed that reaction times to negative words were significantly shorter than to positive words when adopting a self-perspective. When taking another's perspective, there was no significant difference of reaction time between positive and negative words. This result demonstrated that perspective taking reduced attention bias to negative body schema-related information among junior high school students with body image disturbance. The present research suggests that guiding adolescents to view themselves from different perspectives can help them form a more accurate and objective body image.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Imagem Corporal
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Viés de Atenção
Limite:
Adolescent
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2024
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Article