The Relationship of Mindfulness to Body Shame, Body Responsiveness, and Health Outcomes

Lamont, Jean M.

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“…Both theories coincide in that a negative evaluation of one's physical appearance resulting from social comparison leads to increased body shame (Cook-Cottone et al, 2008). Body shame is one of the most frequent consequences of the internalization of the Western body ideal (Lamont, 2019). In addition, body shame is one of the most common emotional states associated with negative BI in ED (Goss & Gilbert, 2014;Hayaki et al, 2002;Pinto-Gouveia et al, 2014), and it can be found in both clinical and non-clinical populations (Dakanalis et al, 2014;Doran & Lewis, 2011).…”

Section: Body Shame: a Risk Factor Associated With Disembodiment And Negative Bimentioning

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Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Body Image: Integrating Positive Body Image, Embodiment and Self-Compassion

Burychka

Miragall

Baños

2021

Psychologica Belgica

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Body image (BI) disturbance is a relevant factor in the etiology and treatment of eating disorders (ED). Although progress has been made in recent decades in understanding BI and its relationship with ED, the efficacy of BI disturbance prevention and intervention programs is still limited. In order to reach deeper understanding of BI disturbance and clarify the interactions between some protective and risk factors related to this construct, we carried out a literature review on some specific BI-related factors that so far have been analyzed independently. We specifically examined positive and negative BI; embodiment and its role in the development of positive and negative BI; and self-compassion as a protective factor that promotes positive embodiment (vs. disembodiment) and protection against body shame. We conclude that integrating the available evidence on these factors into BI models may be used to enhance our understanding of BI and improve the efficacy of prevention and intervention programs to help fight negative BI (by reducing body shame and disembodiment) and promote positive BI (by increasing self-compassion and positive embodiment).

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Section: Body Shame: a Risk Factor Associated With Disembodiment And Negative Bimentioning

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Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Body Image: Integrating Positive Body Image, Embodiment and Self-Compassion

Burychka

Miragall

Baños

2021

Psychologica Belgica

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“…Body shame has been associated with deficits in interoceptive awareness or attention to internal bodily functions (Augustus-Horvath & Tylka, 2009;Holmes & Johnson, 2017;Tylka & Hill, 2004;Watson et al, 2013). Moreover, body shame has also been linked to diminished body responsiveness or the awareness and valuing of bodily functions as a source of information (Lamont, 2015(Lamont, , 2019. Furthermore, experimentally induced body shame has been shown to be associated with subsequent decreases in state body responsiveness (Lamont, 2021).…”

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“…Finally, diminished internal awareness may promote poor self-rated physical health. Body responsiveness has been shown to correlate negatively with poor health outcomes (Lamont, 2015(Lamont, , 2019. Moreover, interoceptive awareness has been shown to correlate negatively with pain symptoms (Duschek et al, 2017).…”

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“…Moreover, body mass index (BMI) and eating disorder risk were included as covariates. Although self-surveillance is inconsistently related to BMI, BMI has been reliably associated with body shame (Daubenmier, 2005;McKinley, 2006) and diminished self-rated health (Lamont, 2015(Lamont, , 2019Rollero & De Piccoli, 2015). It is possible that the proposed associations are limited to the higher end of the BMI spectrum.…”

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The Association Between Self-Surveillance and Self-Rated Health in College Women: A Mechanistic Approach

Lamont

2024

Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion

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Although women outlive men, women report poorer self-rated physical health over much of the lifespan. Objectification theory may offer insight into this gender difference. Objectifying culture promotes self-surveillance, which encourages prioritizing the body’s appearance over its physical functioning and well-being. As women may engage in self-surveillance more so than men, this sequence of events may help explain this gender difference in self-rated health. However, the few studies examining this idea show an inconsistent relationship between self-surveillance and self-rated health. Nonetheless, self-surveillance may promote body shame and diminished awareness of internal bodily states. As these factors are associated with poor self-rated health, self-surveillance may predict poor self-rated health via these mechanisms. In study 1 ( N = 166 undergraduate women), self-surveillance was unrelated to self-rated health. However, body shame and low interoceptive awareness mediated this relationship. In study 2 ( N = 347 undergraduate women and men), self-surveillance correlated negatively with self-rated health for female participants but not male participants. Female participants reported poorer self-rated health, and this effect was serially mediated by self-surveillance, body shame, and low body responsiveness. These studies suggest a potential avenue by which self-surveillance may explain the gender difference in self-rated health in college samples, providing an important basis for future longitudinal investigations in more diverse samples. Moreover, these results suggest that interventions targeting body shame and low internal awareness may be used to promote good self-rated health as well as to prevent disease and poor health behaviors related to self-rated health.

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“…BSV is considered as a behavioral indicator of self-objectification [11] and has been related to various behavioral consequences (see [61]). As Western culture proposes beauty ideals that are virtually impossible to meet, BSH is thought to be one common consequence of the internalization of Western ideals regarding body appearance [62]. Increased levels of BSH, therefore, signal a higher endorsement of the objectifying culture.…”

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Measuring objectification through the Body Inversion Paradigm: Methodological issues

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Objectification occurs when a person is perceived and/or treated like an object. With the present work, we overview the available measures of objectification and present a series of studies aimed at investigating the validity of the task of inverted body recognition proposed by Bernard and colleagues (2012), which might potentially be a useful cognitive measure of objectification. We conducted three studies. Study 1 (N = 101) is a direct replication of Bernard et al.'s study: participants were presented with the same photos of sexualized male and female targets used in the original research. Study 2a (N = 100) is a conceptual replication: we used different images of scantily dressed male and female models. Finally, in Study 2b (N = 100), we investigated a boundary condition by presenting to participants photos of the same models as in Study 2a, but fully dressed and non-sexualized. Using mixed-effects models for completely-crossed classified data structures, we investigated the relationship between the inversion effect and the stimulus' asymmetry, sexualization and attractiveness, and the perceivers' self-objectification, sexism, and automatic woman-human association. Study 1 replicated the original results, showing a stronger inversion effect for male photos. However, no difference between male and female stimuli emerged in either Study 2a or 2b. Moreover, the impact of the other variables on the inversion effect was highly unstable across the studies. These aspects together indicate that the inversion effect depends on the specific set of stimuli and limits the generalizability of results collected using this method. Measuring objectification through the inversion paradigm: Methodological issues On first approach, the meaning of objectification is straightforward: It refers to all circumstances under which a person is treated like an object [1]. Under these circumstances, the person may be denied autonomy and subjectivity, considered instrumental, fungible, violable, ownable by others [1] reduced to body and appearance, or silenced [2]. Over the last decade, many empirical and theoretical works have addressed the phenomenon of objectification and, more specifically, of sexual objectification, which is also the focus of the present work. Nevertheless, we still need to solve important issues, the most important of which is probably how to methodologically address this phenomenon (see [3]).

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The Relationship of Mindfulness to Body Shame, Body Responsiveness, and Health Outcomes

Cited by 9 publications

References 92 publications

Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Body Image: Integrating Positive Body Image, Embodiment and Self-Compassion

Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Body Image: Integrating Positive Body Image, Embodiment and Self-Compassion

The Association Between Self-Surveillance and Self-Rated Health in College Women: A Mechanistic Approach

Measuring objectification through the Body Inversion Paradigm: Methodological issues

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