Recent work has served to dissociate two dimensions of trait body dissatisfaction: body dissatisfaction frequency and body dissatisfaction duration. The present study sought to evaluate whether body dissatisfaction frequency and body dissatisfaction duration are each associated with distinct patterns of appearance-related cognitive processing. It was hypothesized that speeded attentional engagement with idealized bodies is associated with higher frequency of body dissatisfaction episodes, while slowed attentional disengagement from such information may instead be associated with higher duration of body dissatisfaction episodes. Participants (238 women, 149 men) completed an attentional task capable of independently assessing attentional engagement with, and attentional disengagement from, idealized bodies. Participants also completed both trait and in vivo (i.e., ecological momentary assessment) measures of body dissatisfaction frequency and duration. Results showed that neither engagement nor disengagement bias index scores predicted variance in either body dissatisfaction frequency measures or body dissatisfaction duration measures. Findings suggest that either biased attentional engagement with, and disengagement from, idealized bodies do not associate with the frequency and duration of body dissatisfaction episodes, or there are other key moderating factors involved in the expression of body dissatisfaction-linked attentional bias.

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对理想外表的关注和脱离：与身体不满意频率和持续时间的不同关联？

最近的工作有助于分离特征身体不满意的两个维度：身体不满意频率和身体不满意持续时间。本研究试图评估身体不满意频率和身体不满意持续时间是否分别与外观相关认知处理的不同模式相关。据推测，对理想化身体的注意力加速与身体不满意发作的频率较高相关，而对此类信息的注意力减慢可能与身体不满意发作的持续时间较长相关。参与者（238 名女性，149 名男性）完成了一项注意力任务，能够独立评估对理想化身体的注意力投入和注意力脱离。参与者还完成了身体不满意频率和持续时间的性状和体内（即生态瞬时评估）测量。结果表明，参与和脱离偏差指数得分都不能预测身体不满意频率测量或身体不满意持续时间测量的方差。研究结果表明，要么对理想化身体的有偏见的注意力参与和脱离与身体不满意事件的频率和持续时间无关，要么存在其他关键调节因素参与与身体不满意相关的注意力偏差的表达。