Belief in mind-body dualism and mental health: The case of body-image issues among social-media users.

对身心二元论和心理健康的信仰：社交媒体用户中身体形象问题的案例。

• 批准号: 2891113
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2891113
• 关键词: Belief; mind; body; dualism; mental

Most young adults seem to have a troublesome relationship with their bodies. Exposure to social media is a reason. Indeed, young adults are bombarded with extreme comparison standards on platforms such as Instagram. This exposure is linked to rising body-image issues, dysfunctional eating and exercising behaviours, and associated mental-health distress. Adopting theory and methodology from social psychology and experimental philosophy, the current project examines the interplay between such comparison standards, the generation of ideal body-images, and body dissatisfaction. In doing so it will focus on how people construe the relationship between their selves and their bodies. Three studies will examine if belief in mind-body dualism amplifies both the effect of comparing to extreme body standards on ideal body-image generation and the effect of extreme body-images on body dissatisfaction and subsequent mental-health issues. I argue that dualism affords construing the body as a "vessel for the mind" and putting distance between the self and the body. This in turn allows participants to create more extreme counterfactual mental representations of their bodies--a process motivated by comparison on social media. A fourth study will clarify potential short-term benefits of dissociating the self from the body following dissatisfaction with the body. Triggered by a threat to the body, dissociating the self from the source of the threat might function as a short-term strategy to maintain self-esteem. Together, the proposed studies will increase our understanding of how a distant self-body relationship can both be a quick fix and a long-term problem for mental health.

大多数年轻人似乎与身体有麻烦的关系。接触社交媒体是一个原因。确实，年轻人在Instagram等平台上受到极端比较标准的轰炸。这种暴露与身体形象的问题上升有关，功能失调的饮食和锻炼行为以及相关的心理健康困扰。当前项目采用了社会心理学和实验哲学的理论和方法，研究了这种比较标准，理想的身体形象的产生和身体不满之间的相互作用。这样一来，它将集中于人们如何理解自己与身体之间的关系。三项研究将检查对思维二元论的信念是否会放大与极端标准对理想人体形象产生的影响以及极端形象对身体不满的影响以及随后的心理健康问题的影响。我认为二元论可以将身体解释为“思想的船只”，并在自我与身体之间距离。反过来，这使参与者能够对身体的身体进行更极端的反事实表达，这是通过社交媒体进行比较的过程。第四项研究将阐明对身体不满意在身体不满后与身体分离的潜在短期益处。由对身体的威胁触发，将自我与威胁的来源分离，可能是维持自尊的短期策略。拟议的研究一起将加深我们对遥远的自我关系如何快速解决的理解，也是对心理健康的长期问题。