Attentional biases for weight-related information are thought to contribute to maintenance of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. Women with greater body appreciation may pay less attention to thin-ideal cues if body appreciation protects them from negative effects of thin-ideal media, and if so, they may be less susceptible to development of maladaptive attentional biases. The present study used eye-gaze tracking to measure attention to weight-related words/images in 167 body-dissatisfied undergraduate women (aged 17–39 years) to examine the associations among body dissatisfaction, body appreciation, and attentional biases. Participants viewed displays of thin-related, fat-related, and neutral words/images while their eye fixations were tracked over 8-s intervals. We hypothesized body appreciation (as measured by the Body Appreciation Scale) would moderate the documented association between body dissatisfaction and attentional biases for thin-related information only, such that as body appreciation increased, the strength of the relationship between body dissatisfaction and attentional biases would decrease. Results indicated that body appreciation moderated the association between body dissatisfaction and attentional biases for thin-related words only. With low body appreciation, body dissatisfaction was positively associated with attention to thin-related words. With high body appreciation, there was an inverse association between body dissatisfaction and attention to thin-related words. Results suggest that body appreciation may be an effective prevention target for reducing maladaptive attentional biases.

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较高的身体欣赏能力会缓解适应不良的注意偏向与大学女生身体不满意之间的联系

人们认为，与体重有关的信息应注意偏向，有助于维持身体的不满和饮食失调。如果身体欣赏可以保护她们免受薄理想媒体的负面影响，则具有较高身体欣赏能力的女性可能较少关注薄理想的线索，如果这样，则她们可能较不容易适应不良的注意偏见。本研究使用眼睛凝视追踪法测量了167名身体不满意的本科生（年龄在17-39岁之间）对与体重相关的单词/图像的注意力，以检查身体不满，身体欣赏和注意偏见之间的关联。参与者查看了与瘦弱，肥胖和中性有关的单词/图像的显示，同时以8秒的间隔跟踪了他们的眼神。我们假设身体欣赏（通过“身体欣赏量表”衡量）仅会缓解薄信息相关的身体不满与注意力偏见之间的书面关联，从而随着身体欣赏程度的提高，身体不满与注意力偏倚之间的关系强度会增强减少。结果表明，身体欣赏可以缓解身体不满和仅针对与瘦相关的单词的注意偏见之间的联系。身体欣赏程度低时，身体不满意与对与瘦弱相关的单词的关注成正相关。随着身体的高度赞赏，身体的不满意与对与瘦弱相关的单词的注意之间存在负相关。