Introduction
Attitudes toward different under- and overweight categories
Implicit and explicit affective attitudes
Factors influencing body satisfaction
Main goal of this study
Methods
Participants
Material
Demographic questionnaire
Age (M, SD) | Meditation Experience (%) | Yoga Experience (%) | Sports activity in h/week (M, SD) | Social media (M, SD) | Own BMI (M, SD, range) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
22.81 (3.33) | 14.9% never, 45.5% once, 20.9% a few times a year 7.5% a few times a month 6.7% a few times a week 4.5% everyday | 6.0% never, 26.1% once, 21.6% a few times a year 25.4% a few times a month 14.9% a few times a week 5.2% everyday | 6.23 (3.55) | Time spent in h: 1.93 (1.09) Followers/friends: 419.95 (347.20) | 21.76 (2.51, 17.94–35.17) |
Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire—Appearance Scales (MBSRQ; Cash, 2018; German Version: Vossbeck-Elsebusch et al., 2014)
Self-compassion scale (SCS, Neff, 2003; German version, Hupfeld & Ruffieux, 2011)
Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ; Baer et al., 2008; German-version: Michalak et al., 2016)
Photographic Figure Rating Scale (PFRS; Swami et al., 2008; Austrian-version: Swami et al., 2012)
Explicit affective attitudes
Implicit affective attitudes
Procedure
Statistical analysis
Results
Explicit and implicit affective attitudes
Prediction of body satisfaction
Variable | B | 95% CI for B | SE B | β | R2 | Δ R2 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LL | UL | ||||||
Step 1 | 0.12 | 0.12*** | |||||
Constant | 3.80*** | 3.68 | 3.93 | 0.06 | |||
AID | − 0.20*** | − 0.29 | − 0.11 | 0.05 | − 0.35*** | ||
Step 2 | 0.23 | 0.11*** | |||||
Constant | 4.64*** | 4.23 | 5.05 | 0.21 | |||
AID | − 0.21*** | − 0.30 | − 0.13 | 0.04 | − 0.38*** | ||
Negative SCS | − 0.27*** | − 0.40 | − 0.14 | 0.06 | − 0.33*** | ||
Step 3 | 0.26 | 0.03* | |||||
Constant | 3.90*** | 3.14 | 4.67 | 0.39 | |||
AID | − 0.21*** | − 0.29 | − 0.13 | 0.04 | − 0.38*** | ||
Negative SCS | − 0.22** | − 0.35 | − 0.09 | 0.07 | − 0.26** | ||
AWA | 0.02* | 0.003 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.18* | ||
Step 4 | 0.29 | 0.04* | |||||
Constant | 5.03*** | 3.89 | 6.17 | 0.58 | |||
AID | − 0.16** | − 0.25 | − 0.07 | 0.05 | − 0.29** | ||
Negative SCS | − 0.23** | − 0.36 | − 0.10 | 0.07 | − 0.27** | ||
AWA | 0.03* | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.01 | 0.21* | ||
BMI | − 0.06* | − 0.10 | − 0.01 | 0.02 | − 0.21* | ||
Step 5 | 0.32 | 0.03* | |||||
Constant | 4.58*** | 3.39 | 5.78 | 0.61 | |||
AID | − 0.15** | − 0.24 | − 0.06 | 0.05 | − 0.27** | ||
Negative SCS | − 0.19** | − 0.32 | − 0.06 | 0.07 | − 0.23** | ||
AWA | 0.03* | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.01 | 0.20* | ||
BMI | − 0.06** | − 0.10 | − 0.02 | 0.02 | − 0.24** | ||
Describe | 0.02* | 0.001 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.17* |
Variable | B | 95% CI for B | SE B | β | R2 | Δ R2 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LL | UL | ||||||
Step 1 | 0.10 | 0.10*** | |||||
Constant | 4.32*** | 3.92 | 4.73 | 0.20 | |||
Negative SCS | − 0.25*** | − 0.37 | − 0.12 | 0.06 | − 0.32*** | ||
Step 2 | 0.17 | 0.07** | |||||
Constant | 4.48*** | 4.08 | 4.88 | 0.20 | |||
Negative SCS | − 0.27*** | − 0.39 | − 0.14 | 0.06 | − 0.34*** | ||
AID | − 0.14** | − 0.22 | − 0.06 | 0.04 | − 0.26** |