Body Image Dimensions Flashcards
What is Body Dissatisfaction?
Normative discontent:
Majority of children, adolescents, and adults in Western cultures report dissatisfaction with body shape, size, weight, or appearance
What is Body Image?
Multidimensional construct that reflects a person’s feelings, perceptions, thoughts, cognitions, and behaviours related to their body appearance and function
What 3 dimensions make up body image?
Body image is made up of Affective, Cognitive & Perceptual, & Behavioural dimensions
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What is the Affective Dimension?
Body related feelings and emotions that stem from thinking about one’s body size, shape, and function
What are the Types of body-related emotions related to the Affective Dimension? (5)
- Social physique anxiety
- Body-related shame
- Body-related guilt
- Body-related envy
- Body Pride
Affective Dimension
What is Social physique anxiety?
Anxiety from perceived or actual judgment by others
Example: I am playing in a tennis tournament and I experience anxiety because I feel that others are judging my body negatively and think that I am too big
Affective Dimension
What is Body-related shame?
Negative emotion focused on the self
Example: I am fat and therefore I am an ugly person
Affective Dimension
What is Body-related guilt?
Negative emotion by failing to complete an action or behaviour
Example: I feel guilty because I did not exercise today
Affective Dimension
What is Body-related envy?
Negative emotion that occurs when a person feels they lack another person’s superior quality and either desires to have it or wishes the other(s) lacked it
Example: I wish I looked like that Instagram influencer
Affective Dimension
What is Body Pride?
What are the two types?
Positive emotion resulting from satisfaction with behaviour or appearance
Authentic pride & Hubristic pride
Example: I feel good because I feel strong and powerful
Affective Dimension: Body Pride
What is Authentic pride?
A type of body-related pride focused on achievement and outcomes requiring effort.
Example: I feel proud because I worked really hard to achieve my goal of completing a 10km race
Affective Dimension: Body Pride
What is Hubristic pride?
Hubristic pride refers to an excessive or arrogant sense of pride or self-importance. It often involves an inflated ego and a belief in one’s superiority over others
Example: I am better looking than everyone in this gym
Body Image: Cognitive & Perceptual Dimension
What is the Perceptual Dimension?
- The mental representation and/or reflections that an individual has of their body appearance and function
- Level of accuracy between a person’s perceived characteristics and actual characteristics, either in relation to specific body parts or to the body as a whole
- Example assessment: Manipulation of perceived size of body on computer screen
Body Image: Cognitive & Perceptual Dimension
What is the Cognitive Dimension?
- Thoughts, beliefs, and evaluations of body appearance and function
- Questionnaires assess satisfaction or dissatisfaction with body size, shape, and function as well as beliefs and thoughts about body size, shape, and function
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What is the Behavioural Dimension?
Choices and actions based on perceptions, feelings and thoughts about body size, weight, and function
