Consequences of exposure to the thin ideal in mass media depend on moderators in young women: An experimental study

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Title
Consequences of exposure to the thin ideal in mass media depend on moderators in young women: An experimental study
Journal
J Abnorm Psychol
Author(s)
Munsch S., Messerli-Burgy N., Meyer A. H., Humbel N., Schopf K., Wyssen A., Forrer F., Biedert E., Lennertz J., Trier S., Isenschmid B., Milos G., Claussen M., Whinyates K., Adolph D., Margraf J., Assion H. J., Teismann T., Ueberberg B., Juckel G., Muller J., Klauke B., Schneider S.
ISSN
1939-1846 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0021-843X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
07/2021
Volume
130
Number
5
Pages
498-511
Language
english
Notes
Munsch, Simone
Messerli-Burgy, Nadine
Meyer, Andrea H
Humbel, Nadine
Schopf, Kathrin
Wyssen, Andrea
Forrer, Felicitas
Biedert, Esther
Lennertz, Julia
Trier, Stephan
Isenschmid, Bettina
Milos, Gabriella
Claussen, Malte
Whinyates, Katherina
Adolph, Dirk
Margraf, Jurgen
Assion, Hans-Jorg
Teismann, Tobias
Ueberberg, Bianca
Juckel, Georg
Muller, Judith
Klauke, Benedikt
Schneider, Silvia
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SNSF_/Swiss National Science Foundation/Switzerland
German Research Foundation
Swiss Anorexia Nervosa Foundation
University of Fribourg; Research Funds
J Abnorm Psychol. 2021 Jul;130(5):498-511. doi: 10.1037/abn0000676.
Abstract
This study examined the consequences of media exposure to thin ideals compared to pictures of landscapes in healthy young women and women with eating and mixed mental disorders and investigated whether appearance-related cognitive factors and cognitive distortions moderate the effects. Two hundred seventy-five women in a multisite laboratory trial (174 in- or outpatients and 101 healthy women; Mage 22.87 years, SD = 3.94) were exposed to either thin ideals or to landscape pictures and guided through a vivid imagery of these pictures thereafter. Changes in body image dissatisfaction, mood, eating behavior, and physiological markers were assessed. After thin ideal exposure and even more after guided imagery, women's body image dissatisfaction increased and mood declined. The effect on mood was most pronounced in women with eating disorders, less in women with mixed disorders, and smallest in healthy controls. No effects were found on physiological measures. Higher values of appearance-related cognitive factors moderated the effect of thin ideal exposure and guided imagery on all psychological outcomes. Cognitive distortions moderated the effect of thin ideal exposure and guided imagery on mood. Findings indicate an overall susceptibility to viewing thin ideal pictures in magazines in young and especially in women with eating disorders. Though exposure in the laboratory resulted in psychological effects, it did not lead to a physiological stress response. The impact of thin ideal exposure on mood is in line with affect-regulation models in eating disorders, with appearance-related cognitive factors and cognitive distortions potentially accelerating such effects. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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