Development and validation of a Body Image Guilt and Shame Scale

Thompson, Ted; Dinnel, Dale L.; Dill, Nicole J

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(02)00026-0

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“…The central purpose of our research was to examine the role of body guilt within the framework of objectification theory and disordered eating (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997). Women report higher levels of interpersonal guilt and body guilt compared to men (Thompson, Dinnel, & Dill, 2003), suggesting that women also disproportionately experience body guilt, similar to their experiences of sexual objectification, self-surveillance, and body shame (Calogero & Jost, 2011;Calogero, Tantleff-Dunn et al, 2010;Davis, 1990;Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997;Puwar, 2004;Swim, Hyers, Cohen, & Ferguson, 2001). Although shame and guilt are both self-conscious emotions that often co-occur, they have been clearly differentiated in prior scholarship along cognitive, affective, and motivational dimensions (Lewis, 1971;Tangney, 1992Tangney, , 1995Tangney & Dearing, 2002;Tangney, Miller, Flicker, & Barlow, 1996), and in such a way that is useful to consider in the context of objectification theory.…”

Section: Role Of Body Guiltmentioning

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“…The Body Image Guilt and Shame Scale (BIGSS; Thompson et al, 2003) was used to measure body guilt Ð the degree to which individuals feel tension, remorse, or regret over specific body-related behaviors that evoke concerns with taking corrective action. To our knowledge, this is the only published scale that measures body guilt among individuals across the weight and shape spectrum.…”

Section: Self-surveillance the Surveillance Subscale Of The Objectifmentioning

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Body Guilt

Calogero

Pina

2011

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Two studies investigated body guilt (i.e., feeling regret and remorse over how the body looks and a desire for reparative action to ÒfixÓ the body) within the framework of objectification theory among predominantly White British undergraduate women. In Study 1 (N=225), participants completed self-report measures of interpersonal sexual objectification, self-surveillance, body shame, body guilt, and eating restraint. Path analyses indicated support for the inclusion of body guilt in the objectification model, with body shame and body guilt fully mediating the relationship between self-surveillance and eating restraint. In Study 2 (N=85), participants reported higher body guilt, self-surveillance, body shame, and eating restraint when selfobjectification was situationally activated, compared to the activation of body empowerment or a neutral condition. Path analyses in the second study replicated the objectification model from Study 1 with a state measure of self-objectification. These findings suggest that women also feel guilt (in addition to shame) about their bodies when attention is directed toward their physical appearance and wish to ÒcorrectÓ their body via disordered eating. Acknowledging womenÕs feelings of guilt in relation to not meeting restrictive beauty standards furthers our understanding of womenÕs experience of objectification, and provides an additional target for reducing womenÕs mental health risks.

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Section: Role Of Body Guiltmentioning

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Section: Self-surveillance the Surveillance Subscale Of The Objectifmentioning

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Body Guilt

Calogero

Pina

2011

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…They also found that repeated and accumulated experiences with low traumatic events (such as parents using shame to train children, or being laughed at by his/her peers) could also cause individuals to feel anxious in social interactions or situations being judged [HirshfeldBecker et al, 1999]. In a study on the validation of Body Image Guilt Shame Scale, body-image shame was found to be positively correlated with social anxiety [Thompson et al, 2003].…”

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Shame, personality, and social anxiety symptoms in Chinese and American nonclinical samples: a cross-cultural study

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Shame has been observed to play an important role in social anxiety in China [Xu, 1982]. Shame and personality factors, such as neuroticism and introversion-extraversion, are also related to social anxiety symptoms in Chinese college students [Li et al., 2003]. The aim of this study was to explore cross-cultural differences of the effects of shame and personality on social anxiety using the Experience Scale of Shame, the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised Short Scale and Social Anxiety Inventory. Data were collected from both a Chinese sample (n=211, 66 males and 145 females, average ages 20.12+/-1.56 years) and an American sample (n=211, 66 males and 145 females, average ages 20.22+/-1.90 years) of college students. The structural equation modeling (SEM) was performed separately for the Chinese and American samples. The SEM results reveal a shame-mediating model, which is adaptive and only in the Chinese sample. This suggests that shame is a mediator between the Chinese personality and social anxiety. The shame factor did not play the same role in the American sample. This empirical study supports the hypothesis that shame has a more important effect on social anxiety in the Chinese culture compared to its effect on Americans.

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“…For this reason, the scale was insufficient for our purpose. Another scale is the Body Image Guilt and Shame Scale (BIGSS; Thompson, Dinnel, & Dill, 2003). This is a scale assessing proneness to shame and guilt in weight-and body-related scenarios that requires the respondent to make four ratings in response to each of 15 scenarios, thus altogether requiring 60 ratings.…”

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Development of the Weight- and Body-Related Shame and Guilt Scale (WEB–SG) in a Nonclinical Sample of Obese Individuals

Conradt

Dierk

Schlumberger

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Journal of Personality Assessment

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In this article, we present the evaluation of the psychometric properties of a new self-report measure of Weight- and Body-Related Shame and Guilt (WEB-SG). The main purpose of the study was to measure shame and guilt feelings separately in obese individuals and investigate differing behavioral and emotional correlates of these emotions. Altogether, 331 obese participants completed the WEB-SG and other established self-report measures. A subset of the participants completed a 6-month follow-up. The WEB-SG proved to be internally consistent and temporally stable over a 6-month period. Regarding the factorial structure, a two-factor conceptualization was supported. The construct validity of the WEB-SG subscales was evidenced by a substantial overlap of common variance with related measures. The subscales Shame and Guilt showed differential correlation patterns to other scales. The WEB-SG is a brief, psychometrically sound measure for assessing body shame and guilt concerning weight control in obese individuals.

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Development and validation of a Body Image Guilt and Shame Scale

Cited by 48 publications

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Body Guilt

Body Guilt

Shame, personality, and social anxiety symptoms in Chinese and American nonclinical samples: a cross-cultural study

Development of the Weight- and Body-Related Shame and Guilt Scale (WEB–SG) in a Nonclinical Sample of Obese Individuals

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