Assessing the Relationship Between Attitudinal and Perceptual Component of Body Image Disturbance Using Virtual Reality

Corno, Giulia; Serino, Silvia; Cipresso, Pietro; Baños, Rosa; Riva, Giuseppe

doi:10.1089/cyber.2018.0340

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“…A growing number of studies have recently explored the potential of VR technologies by presenting scenarios through allocentric perspectives (e.g., as if immersed users are looking at their image in a mirror) [ 42 , 43 ]. However, VR also makes it possible for participants to look at themselves from an egocentric perspective (e.g., as if they are inside the virtual bodies).…”

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“…Corno and colleagues [ 42 ] used allocentric and egocentric perspectives to assess attitudinal and perceptual factors associated with BIDs through the immersion in a virtual environment in which users’ avatars could move their arms and bodies in real-time. Their procedure consisted in a VR body size estimation (which is a paradigm close to body size modulation task).…”

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“eLoriCorps Immersive Body Rating Scale”: Exploring the Assessment of Body Image Disturbances from Allocentric and Egocentric Perspectives

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Bouchard

Ouellet

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The first objective of this study was to test the convergent and discriminant validity between the “eLoriCorps Immersive Body Rating Scale” and the traditional paper-based figure rating scale (FRS). The second objective was to explore the contribution of the egocentric virtual reality (VR) perspective of eLoriCorps to understanding body image disturbances (BIDs). The sample consisted of 53 female and 13 male adults. Body size dissatisfaction, body size distortion, perceived body size, and ideal body size were assessed. Overall, outcomes showed good agreement between allocentric perspectives as measured via VR and the FRS. The egocentric VR perspective produced different results compared to both the allocentric VR perspective and the FRS. This difference revealed discriminant validity and suggested that eLoricorps’ egocentric VR perspective might assess something different from the traditional conception of body dissatisfaction, which an allocentric VR perspective generally assesses. Finally, the egocentric VR perspective in assessing BIDs deserves to be studied more extensively to explore the possibility of finding two types of body image distortion: (a) an egocentric perceptual body distortion, referring to internal body sensation affected by intra-individual changes, and (b) an allocentric perceptual body distortion, referring to external body benchmarks constructed by inter-individual comparison occurring in a given cultural context.

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“eLoriCorps Immersive Body Rating Scale”: Exploring the Assessment of Body Image Disturbances from Allocentric and Egocentric Perspectives

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Ouellet

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“…Studies show that the clinical outcome is superior to waitlist control conditions and comparable to in vivo exposure-based interventions. During the last decade, clinicians extended this field to more complex disorders, for instance, eating disorders and body image disturbance (e.g., Ferrer-Garcia et al, 2013;Corno et al, 2018), schizophrenia (e.g., da Costa and de Carvalho, 2004;Freeman, 2008;Kim et al, 2008), and building resilience and post-traumatic growth (e.g., Corno and Bouchard, 2015).…”

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The Adoption of New Treatment Modalities by Health Professionals and the Relative Weight of Empirical Evidence in Favor of Virtual Reality Exposure Versus Mindfulness in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Nolet

Corno

Bouchard

2020

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent mental disorders, and cognitivebehavioral therapy (CBT) with exposure exercises is considered as the gold-standard psychological intervention. New psychotherapeutic modalities have emerged in the last decade and, among them, mindfulness has been rapidly adopted by therapists. The adoption rate is slower for the use of virtual reality (VR) to conduct exposure. The goal of the present position paper is to contrast, for the treatment of anxiety disorders, the weight of empirical evidences supporting the use of exposure in VR with the use of mindfulness-based therapy (MBT). Based on the most recent meta-analyses, we found that CBT with exposure conducted in VR was more thoroughly researched and supported than MBT, receiving validation from roughly twice as many studies with high control (i.e., randomized, active controls with clinical samples). However, this conclusion is nuanced by reviewing gaps in the literature for both therapies. Potential factors influencing clinicians' choice of treatment and suggestions for future research directions are proposed.

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“…In the virtual space, people can check to see if they "feel OK" or see if something is wrong and needs to be fixed; this is similar to checking one's facial expression in a mirror. One application of this process is in correcting body images in VR exposure for obesity therapy [105][106][107][108].…”

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Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

Georgieva

Georgiev

2019

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Advances in virtual reality present opportunities to relive experiences in an immersive medium that can change the way we perceive our life stories, potentially shaping our realities for the better. This paper studies the role of virtual reality as a tool for the creation of stories with the concept of the self as a narrator and the life of the self as a storyline. The basis of the study is the philosophical notion of the self-narrative as an explanatory story of the events in one’s life that constitutes the notion of one’s self. This application is suitable for cases when individuals need to recreate their self, such as during recovery after traumatic events. The analysis of the effects of virtual reality shows that it enables a person to engage in a process of deeper self-observation to understand and explain adverse events and to give meaning to these events to form a new story, which can complement the therapeutic outcomes of exposure treatments. This study proposes concrete examples of immersive scenarios used to reconstruct personal stories. Several possible levels of experience are proposed to suggest that recovery can be achieved through the gradual retelling of the self-narrative, addressing all of the underlying narratives. Considering the ethical challenges that might arise, this paper explores the ways in which immersion in virtual reality can benefit a person’s view toward life as a story and his or her self as its author, comparing this idea with previous research on the application of virtual reality for trauma treatment. The analysis also emphasizes the perception of narrative authorship in virtual reality as an essential method for recovering the self-narrative and improving a patient’s mental health during self-actualization.

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Assessing the Relationship Between Attitudinal and Perceptual Component of Body Image Disturbance Using Virtual Reality

Cited by 31 publications

References 52 publications

“eLoriCorps Immersive Body Rating Scale”: Exploring the Assessment of Body Image Disturbances from Allocentric and Egocentric Perspectives

“eLoriCorps Immersive Body Rating Scale”: Exploring the Assessment of Body Image Disturbances from Allocentric and Egocentric Perspectives

The Adoption of New Treatment Modalities by Health Professionals and the Relative Weight of Empirical Evidence in Favor of Virtual Reality Exposure Versus Mindfulness in the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

Reconstructing Personal Stories in Virtual Reality as a Mechanism to Recover the Self

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