Q2. What was the significance of the results of the simple slopes analysis?
When significant moderation was observed (i.e., interaction terms were significant), simple slopes analyses were conducted in accordance with Jaccard and Turrisi (2003) to explore the differences in the outcome between conditions at low (-1SD) and high (+1SD) levels of internalisation.
Q3. How many participants identified themselves as white?
Eighty-one (50.3%) participants identified themselves as White, 36 (22.4%) as Asian British/Asian other, 22 (13.7%) as Black British/Black other, 17 (10.6%) as mixed, and 4 (2.5%) as “other.”
Q4. What is the role of self-compassion in women’s body image concerns?
Kelly, Vimalakanthan, and Miller (2014)argued that self-compassion may play a protective role in women’s body image concerns by promoting de-personalisation of disappointment and encouraging self-acceptance.
Q5. What was the effect of the finalmodel with all predictors and interaction terms?
The finalmodel with all predictors and interaction terms accounted for a significant proportion of the total variation in participants’ post-exposure state mood (R2 = .82, adjusted R2 = .67, F(9,149) = 33.49, p < .001).
Q6. What is the role of self-compassion in women’s body image?
A recent systematic review of 28 studies concluded that self-compassion was consistently linked to lower levels of eating pathology, and was implicated as a protective factor against poor body image and eating pathology (Braun, Park, & Gorin, 2016).
Q7. What was the purpose of the physical appearance comparison scale?
The Physical Appearance Comparison Scale (PACS;Thompson, Heinberg, & Tantleff, 1991) was used to assess the tendency for making appearance comparisons.
Q8. What is the effect of a combination of self-compassion and fitspiration images?
as predicted in Hypothesis 3, women who viewed a combination of fitspiration and selfcompassion images displayed more body satisfaction, body appreciation, and selfcompassion, and less negative mood compared to women who viewed only fitspiration images (and did not differ compared to viewing the neutral control images).
Q9. What is the popular social networking site in the U.S.?
It is the second most used social networking site in the U.S. afterFacebook, with 32% of US Internet users accessing Instagram weekly (Stein, 2017).
Q10. What are the benefits of viewing self-compassion quotes?
Their findings show that brief exposure to such quotes may be beneficial to women’s body image, levels of self-compassion, and mood.
Q11. What is the impact of a self-compassion based meditation intervention on women’s?
A recent study examined the impact of a self-compassion based meditation intervention on women’s self-compassion, body appreciation, body shame, and body dissatisfaction.
Q12. How did the participants rate the extent to which they agreed with nine statements?
Participants rated the extent to which they agreed with nine statements (e.g., ‘I compare my body to the bodies of people who are on TV’) using a 5-point scale (1 = definitely disagree, 5 = definitely agree).