Real ideal: Investigating how ideal and hyper-ideal video game bodies affect men and women

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Highlights:

• Tested how ideal and hyper-ideal bodies affected body image dissatisfaction.

• Conducted separate experiments for men and women.

• Hyper-ideal bodies reduced body image dissatisfaction for women.

• Hyper-ideal bodies increased body image dissatisfaction for men.

摘要

•Tested how ideal and hyper-ideal bodies affected body image dissatisfaction.•Conducted separate experiments for men and women.•Hyper-ideal bodies reduced body image dissatisfaction for women.•Hyper-ideal bodies increased body image dissatisfaction for men.

论文关键词:Body image dissatisfaction,Video games,Social comparison

论文评审过程:Received 5 August 2015, Revised 15 January 2016, Accepted 22 January 2016, Available online 10 February 2016, Version of Record 10 February 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.01.026