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17.05.2024 | Research Article

Emotional body representations: more pronounced effect of hands at a more explicit level of awareness

verfasst von: Myrto Efstathiou, Louise S. Delicato, Anna Sedda

Erschienen in: Experimental Brain Research | Ausgabe 7/2024

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Abstract

To understand conditions such as body dysmorphic disorder, we need to understand healthy individuals’ perceptual, conceptual, and emotional representations of their bodies. Not much is known about the differences in these representations across body districts, for example, hands, feet, and whole-body, despite their differences at sensory and functional levels. To understand this, we developed more implicit and explicit measures of body satisfaction for these body districts. Sixty-seven participants (age M = 30.66, SD = 11.19) completed a series of online Implicit Association Tests (IAT) and a Body Image Satisfaction Visual Analogue Scale (BISVAS; explicit) for each body district (hands/feet/whole body). The results show no differences in the more implicit level of awareness in hands, feet and whole body, while differences are apparent at a more explicit level of awareness, with higher scores for body image satisfaction for the hands than the whole body and marginally significant lower scores for feet than hands. Those findings suggest that visual attention, level of concern attributed to a body district, and disgust drivers are possible factors affecting the experience of attitudinal body image satisfaction.
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Metadaten
Titel
Emotional body representations: more pronounced effect of hands at a more explicit level of awareness
verfasst von
Myrto Efstathiou
Louise S. Delicato
Anna Sedda
Publikationsdatum
17.05.2024
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Experimental Brain Research / Ausgabe 7/2024
Print ISSN: 0014-4819
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1106
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-024-06839-2

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