Is body focus restricted to self-evaluation? Body focus in the evaluation of self and others

The International Journal of Eating Disorders
D W BeebeK Rosa

Abstract

Clinicians have suggested that the core pathology of the eating disorders is an extreme body focus in self-evaluation. This study investigated whether women who focus on their own bodies place a similar focus on body shape when evaluating others and expect others to have a strong body focus in their self-evaluations. Eighty-four undergraduate women completed the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), which largely measures body focus in self-evaluation. Each was also shown a series of photographs of women and asked what aspects of the photos they first noticed and how the depicted women felt about themselves. Finally, each responded to scenarios in which they or a hypothetical woman overate or dieted. High EAT-26 scores were associated with an elevated number of "fat" or "thin" feelings attributed to women in the slides and a marginally greater number of body-related observations made about the slides. High EAT-26 scores were also associated with inferred negative feelings of others after overeating and positive feelings of others after dieting. In fact, the relationships between EAT-26 scores and feelings in response to hypothetical overeating and dieting situations were no stronger when applied to the self than when applied to other...Continue Reading

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