A Research On Influence Of College Students' Self-compassion And Fat Talk On Body Image

Body image is an important indicator of individual mental health,which has a great influence on many aspects of the individual.Previous studies have shown that body image is strongly associated with eating disorders,social avoidance,depression,anxiety and substance abuse.It is significant for the individual mental and physical health to formats a healthy and positive body image is essential.Research and reality reveal that one of the factors that seriously affects the body image is fat talk.The effect of fat talk on body image is unclear,and one of the possible reasons is that personal traits are not considered,such as self-compassion,self-esteem and so on.Self-compassion,involves being touched by and open to one's own suffering,not avoiding or disconnecting from it,generating the desire to alleviate one's suffering and to heal oneself with kindness.Therefore,the aim of the study is to explore the influence of self-compassion and fat talk on body image.The research focused on different topics and adopted different methods to study the selected topics.Study 1 adopted a diary method that was less used by domestic scholars;Study 2 used a questionnaire method and experimental method.Study 1 : We used a diary method to study the influence of self-compassion and fat talk on body image of college students.SPSS22.0and HLM7.0 Student are used to analyze the data.As previous research have shown that the body image of individuals with different body mass index(BMI)is influenced differently by fat talk,so in data processing,we divide the data into the normal body weight group and the heavy weight group.The results showed that: there were significant differences in the frequency and duration of fat talk between male and female students;the statistical results of HLM show that self-compassion and fat talk can significantly predict of body image,and for different group,theeffect of fat talk is different.Specially,there is the positive effect of fat talk on the body image of the normal body weight group,namely,the increase in the number and duration of fat talk,the higher the body image score,the more positive the body image is.For the heavy weight group,fat talk has had a negative impact on body image;that is,the lower the body image scores as the number and duration of fat talk increases,the more negative the body image is,both the normal body weight group and the heavy weight group,the higher the level of self-compassion,the weaker the effect of fat talk on body image is.Study 2 : We used questionnaire and experimental method to study the influence of college students' self-compassion and fat talk on body image.We set up the situation of fat talk by referring to the foreign experimental paradigm and the third-party evaluation paradigm,and to study the influence of fat talk on body image for subjects with different levels of self-compassion.Subjects: 104 female college students(54 in high self-compassion group;50 in low self-compassion group);Tools:Self-compassion scale and Body image state scale;Methods:questionnaire method and experimental method.The results showed that the main effect of self-compassion was significant,the main effect of fat talk was not significant.For individuals with high levels of self-compassion,regardless of whether the content of fat talk is positive or negative,there is no significant difference between individuals body image.For individuals with low levels of self-compassion,differences in body image before and after the test were significant under both conditions of fat talk,under the condition of negative fat talk,the body image of individuals with low self-compassion level is more positive and significantly different from the previous test.Under the condition of positive fat talk,the individual body image with low self-compassion level is more positive and significantly different from the previous test.Conclusion:(1)Self-compassion can affect the body image of the individual.Thehigher level of self-compassion,the more positive the body image is;the lower level of self-compassion,the more negative the body image is.(2)Fat talk will affect the body image.This effect is illustrated by the fact that for the normal body weight college students,the individual's body image scores higher and the body image is more positive as the number and duration of fat talk increases;for the heavy weight college students,as the number and duration of fat talk increases,the body image scores lower and the body image becomes more negative.(3)Self-compassion plays a role in fat talk on college students' body image.Compared with individuals with high levels of self-compassion,fat talk has a greater impact on people with low self-compassion,and with the increase of self-compassion,the influence of fat talk on body image is decreased.