Gutenberg Open Science: Body image avoidance affects interpersonal distance perception : a virtual environment experiment

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dc.contributor.author	Welsch, Robin	-
dc.contributor.author	Hecht, Heiko	-
dc.contributor.author	Kolar, David R.	-
dc.contributor.author	Witthöft, Michael	-
dc.contributor.author	Legenbauer, Tanja	-
dc.date.accessioned	2022-05-20T09:54:14Z	-
dc.date.available	2022-05-20T09:54:14Z	-
dc.date.issued	2020	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/7023	-
dc.description.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.	de_DE
dc.language.iso	eng	de
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND	*
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychologie	de_DE
dc.subject.ddc	150 Psychology	en_GB
dc.title	Body image avoidance affects interpersonal distance perception : a virtual environment experiment	en_GB
dc.type	Zeitschriftenaufsatz	de
dc.identifier.doi	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7009	-
jgu.type.dinitype	article	en_GB
jgu.type.version	Published version	de
jgu.type.resource	Text	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport	de
jgu.organisation.department	FB 04 Medizin	de
jgu.organisation.number	7910	-
jgu.organisation.number	2700	-
jgu.organisation.name	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz	-
jgu.rights.accessrights	openAccess	-
jgu.journal.title	European eating disorders review	de
jgu.journal.volume	28	de
jgu.journal.issue	3	de
jgu.pages.start	282	de
jgu.pages.end	295	de
jgu.publisher.year	2020	-
jgu.publisher.name	Wiley	de
jgu.publisher.place	Chichester	de
jgu.publisher.issn	1099-0968	de
jgu.organisation.place	Mainz	-
jgu.subject.ddccode	150	de
jgu.publisher.doi	10.1002/erv.2715	de
jgu.organisation.ror	https://ror.org/023b0x485
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