This study investigated the relationship between body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms, and attentional bias to images of male bodies using a compound visual search task. Sixty-three male participants searched for a horizontal or vertical target line among tilted lines. A separate male body image was presented within proximity to each line. Overall, search times were faster when the target line was paired with a muscular or obese body and distractor lines were paired with bodies of average muscularity and body fat (congruent trials) than on neutral trials, in which only average muscularity and body fat images were shown. Attentional bias for muscular bodies was correlated with muscle dissatisfaction, eating restraint, and shape concern, and attentional bias for obese bodies was correlated with eating restraint. For incongruent trials, in which a single muscular or obese body was paired with a distractor line, search times were indistinguishable from neutral trials. Unexpectedly, we found a negative association between search times and both body fat dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in conditions where obese bodies were paired with distracting stimuli. This result implicates a potential role for attentional filtering and/or avoidance of obese bodies in predicting body fat dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptomology.

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使用视觉搜索评估男性的身体不满，饮食失调症状，身体成分以及对身体刺激的注意偏见

这项研究使用复合视觉搜索任务研究了身体不满，饮食失调症状和注意力偏向男性身体图像之间的关系。六十三名男性参与者在倾斜线中搜索了水平或垂直目标线。在每条线附近显示了一个单独的男性身体图像。总体而言，与中性试验相比，目标线与肌肉发达或肥胖的身体配对，而牵张线与平均肌肉和体脂的配对（一致试验）时，搜索时间更快。如图所示。肌肉体的注意偏向与肌肉不满意，进食受限和形状担忧有关，肥胖体的注意偏见与进食限制相关。对于不协调的审判，将单个肌肉或肥胖的身体与牵张线配对使用时，搜索时间与中性试验无法区分。出乎意料的是，在肥胖的身体与分散注意力的刺激相结合的情况下，我们发现搜索时间与身体脂肪不满意和饮食失调症状之间呈负相关。该结果暗示肥胖过滤的潜在作用和/或避免肥胖的身体在预测体脂不满和饮食失调症状方面。