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Autoren: Welsch, Robin
Hecht, Heiko
Kolar, David R.
Witthöft, Michael
Legenbauer, Tanja
Titel: Body image avoidance affects interpersonal distance perception : a virtual environment experiment
Online-Publikationsdatum: 20-Mai-2022
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Sprache des Dokuments: Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract: Objective Eating disorders have a considerable influence on social contacts. The avoidance towards the own body may result in the avoidance of others. Previous research has found a preference for larger interaction distances in individuals with eating disorders (ED) as compared to control participants (CG). We aimed to replicate these findings and to investigate whether the body weight of the interactant moderates the effect. Method We recruited a female sample with mixed ED subtypes (n = 21) and a female CG (n = 28). Participants were immersed in a virtual environment and engaged in a number of fictitious social interactions. They approached a virtual person until a comfortable distance for interaction was reached. The approached virtual persons differed with respect to body weight in five levels (underweight to obese). Results Our results indicate that interpersonal distance varies as a U-shaped function of the avatar's body weight, and that higher levels of body avoidance, present in ED individuals, magnify this effect.Conclusions We discuss our results with regard to the role of perspective and disgust to provide a useful framework and to motivate future studies in the domain of body avoidance in social interactions.
DDC-Sachgruppe: 150 Psychologie
150 Psychology
Veröffentlichende Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit: FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
FB 04 Medizin
Veröffentlichungsort: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7009
Version: Published version
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Nutzungsrechte: CC BY-NC-ND
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Zeitschrift: European eating disorders review
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Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer: 282
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Verlag: Wiley
Verlagsort: Chichester
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
ISSN: 1099-0968
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung: 10.1002/erv.2715
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