Relational Frame Theory (RFT), a contemporary behavioral account of language and cognition, has been offered as an explanatory model of the development and maintenance of body image disturbance. RFT proposes derived relational responding (DRR) as a process through which the functions of a stimulus are transformed consistent with its relation with other stimuli (and absent direct learning contingencies. Conceptual work has assumed DRR to be central to the development and treatment of body image disturbance. This study offers the first empirical investigation of DRR with body-image stimuli, and untrained approach-and-escape functions. Participants readily demonstrated mutual and combinatorial entailment with stimuli they generated to represent their own body image, along with images fatter and thinner than themselves. Participants also readily demonstrated transformation of untrained approach-and-escape functions consistent with that of thinner and fatter body images. These findings provide a preliminary demonstration of DRR in the context of body image disturbance and support further research applying RFT in this area.

关系框架理论（RFT）是当代语言和认知的行为解释，已被用作人体图像障碍发展和维持的解释模型。RFT提出了派生的关系响应（DRR）过程，通过该过程，刺激的功能与其与其他刺激的关系（以及缺乏直接学习的偶然性）保持一致，转换概念。这项研究首次对具有身体图像刺激和未经训练的进近和逃逸功能的DRR进行了实证研究，参与者很容易证明他们产生的相互刺激和组合刺激代表了自己的身体图像，以及脂肪越来越薄的图像。比自己。参与者还轻松地证明了未经训练的进近和逃逸功能的转换与更薄，更胖的人体图像一致。这些发现提供了在身体图像紊乱的背景下DRR的初步证明，并支持在该领域应用RFT的进一步研究。