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THE TRIPARTITE BODY MODEL: HOW THE SOCIAL BODY SHAPES THE OUTER AND INNER BODY IN THE SOCIAL MEDIAL ERA
No full textNell'era digitale, i social media influenzano in modo significativo il modo in cui percepiamo e rappresentiamo i nostri corpi, trasformando l'immagine corporea e l'autopercezione.
Questa tesi presenta il Modello Corporeo Tripartito, un nuovo framework che suggerisce che il sé e l'esperienza corporea siano modellati dall'intersezione di tre dimensioni fondamentali del sé: il corpo interiore, il corpo esteriore e il corpo sociale.
Il Capitolo 1 discute il ruolo degli ideali di bellezza nella società contemporanea, evidenziando non solo il peso psicologico imposto dai social media, ma anche come tali pressioni vengano ulteriormente amplificate dai confronti sociali, dai filtri di bellezza e dalla pressione verso la perfezione.
Il Capitolo 2 introduce il Modello Corporeo Tripartito, esplorando come le esperienze in realtà virtuale (VR) influenzino la percezione corporea. Questo capitolo esamina inoltre il potenziale della VR come strumento per riconnettere le diverse dimensioni del corpo e per ampliare la comprensione del sé incarnato. Infine, il Capitolo 3 presenta quattro studi volti a testare empiricamente il framework.
I risultati dello Studio 1 indicano che l'uso dei filtri di bellezza può avere un effetto negativo sul corpo esteriore delle donne. I dati mostrano anche che un'esposizione cumulativa ai social media può favorire lo sviluppo della media literacy tra gli utenti abituali di Instagram, aumentando la consapevolezza riguardo l'editing delle foto e l'uso dei filtri. Inoltre, si evidenzia come altre caratteristiche legate a Instagram — come il numero di follower, la longevità dell’account e l’uso quotidiano — influenzino anch'esse l’esperienza corporea esteriore. Nello Studio 2, invece, utilizzando illusioni corporee, viene mostrato come l'engagement sui social media alteri il senso di embodiment degli utenti, aumentando la consapevolezza esternalizzata del corpo, in particolare per quanto riguarda il viso. Lo Studio 3 mostra invece come il corpo sociale (cioè l'auto-oggettivazione) sia un mediatore tra l'esperienza del corpo esteriore e quella del corpo interiore. Inoltre, si evidenzia come strategie di coping basate sull'evitamento e sulla correzione dell’aspetto predicano una disconnessione dal corpo interiore e un aumento delle preoccupazioni nei confronti del corpo esteriore. Infine, lo Studio 4 confronta interventi teorici e interventi esperienziali per promuovere una body positivity. I risultati rivelano che gli approcci teorici sono efficaci nel riconnettere gli individui con il proprio corpo esteriore, promuovendo percezioni corporee più sane, mentre gli interventi esperienziali agiscono principalmente sugli aspetti impliciti, come le emozioni.
In generale, questa tesi sottolinea la complessa interazione tra autorappresentazione digitale, validazione sociale e percezione corporea, evidenziando la necessità di approfondire ulteriormente l’esame del Modello Corporeo Tripartito.
Questo lavoro mette inoltre in luce l'importanza di sviluppare strategie volte a promuovere un’immagine corporea positiva, al fine di tutelare il benessere degli utenti dagli effetti potenzialmente dannosi della perfezione idealizzata proposta dai social media.In the digital age, social media significantly shapes how we perceive and represent our bodies, transforming body image and self-perception. This thesis presents the Tripartite Body Model. This new framework suggests that the self and bodily experience are shaped by the intersection of three core dimensions of the self: the inner, outer, and social body. Chapter 1 discusses the role of beauty ideals in current society, highlighting not just the psychological burden that social media imposes but also how these factors are exacerbated by social comparisons, beauty filters, and pressures for perfection. Chapter 2 introduces the Tripartite Body Model, exploring how virtual reality (VR) experiences inform body perception. This chapter also examines the potential of VR to be used as a tool for reconnecting the different bodies and extending the understanding of the embodied self. Finally, Chapter 3 uses four studies to test the framework empirically. Study 1 indicates that beauty filters can have a detrimental effect on women’s outer bodies. Findings also show that cumulative social media exposure may build media literacy in those who consistently use Instagram, increasing awareness of photo editing and filters. This study also demonstrates how other Instagram-related features, such as the number of followers, the account longevity, and the daily use, affect outer bodily experiences, too. Study 2 uses body illusions to show how social media engagement alters the users’ sense of embodiment, increasing externalized body awareness, particularly regarding the face. The third study identifies the social body (i.e., self-objectification) as a mediator between outer and inner body experiences, and it shows that avoidance- and appearance-fixing coping strategies predict a disconnection over the inner body and an increase of concerns toward the outer body. Finally, study 4 compares theoretical and experiential interventions to promote body positivity, revealing that theoretical approaches effectively reconnect individuals with their outer body, promoting healthier body perceptions, while experiential interventions primarily impact implicit aspects, such as emotions. Overall, this thesis emphasizes the intricate interplay between digital self-representation, social validation, and body perception, underlying the need to further examine the Tripartite Body Model. This work also shows the importance of developing strategies that promote positive body image to safeguard users’ well-being from the potentially harmful effects of social media's idealized perfection
Mitigating negative emotions through virtual reality and embodiment
No full textOncological treatments are responsible for many of the physical changes (aesthetic and functional) associated with cancer. Because of this, cancer patients are at high risk of developing mental health problems. The aim of this study is to propose an innovative Virtual Reality (VR) training that uses a somatic technique (i.e., embodiment) to create a bridge with the bodily dimension of cancer. After undergoing a psycho-educational procedure, a combination of exposure, out-of-body experience, and body swapping will gradually train the patient to cope with cancer-related difficulties, increasing stress tolerance, and patient empowerment. The most engaging step of this advanced form of Stress Inoculation Training is the body swapping experience, which will guide the patient in embodying a resilient cancer patient who is facing similar difficulties. Through the VR ability to simulate the human brain functioning, and the potential of embodiment to hook to the somatic dimension of illness, we expect that once the concepts endured through the patient’s experience of resilience are triggered, the patient will be more prone to implement functional coping strategies in real life, reaching empowerment and adjusting to the post-treatment difficulties. When the scenarios are built and the training tested, our intervention could be used to support patients with different oncological diseases and who are treated in different cancer hospitals, as well as patients with other non-oncological problems (e.g., social anxiety). Future research should focus on using our paradigm for other clinical populations, and supporting cancer patients in coping with different distressing situations
Participant behavior and community response in online mental health communities: Insights from Reddit
No full textThe growing presence of online mutual-help communities has significantly changed how people access and provide mental health (MH) support. While extensive research has explored self-disclosure and social support dynamics within these communities, less is known about users’ distinctive behavioral patterns, posting intents, and community response. This study analyzed a large-scale, five-year Reddit dataset of 67 MH-related subreddits, comprising over 3.4 million posts and 24 million comments from approximately 2.4 million users. We categorized subreddits based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and compared the behavioral patterns in these communities with Reddit non-MH ones. Leveraging Reddit's post flair feature, we defined a ground truth for post intents and applied an automated classification method to infer intents across the dataset. We then used causal inference analysis to assess the effect of community responses on subsequent user behavior. Our analysis revealed that MH-related subreddits featured unique characteristics in content length, throwaway account usage, user actions, persistence, and community response. These online behaviors mirrored those in other mutual-help Reddit communities and resonated with offline patterns while diverging from non-support-oriented subreddits. We also found that seeking support and venting are the predominant posting intents, with users tending to maintain consistent intents over time. Furthermore, we observed that receiving comments and reactions significantly influenced users’ follow-up engagement, fostering increased participation. These findings highlight the supportive role of online MH communities and emphasize the need for tailored design to optimize user experience and support for individuals facing MH challenges
Psychological variables associated with quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer: the role of body image distress
Full text linkThe aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the relationship between quality of life (QoL) and body image distress in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC), considering relevant psychological variables (i.e., coping strategies, social anxiety symptoms, self-esteem, intolerance of uncertainty, pain, and distress). We also aimed to explore gender differences in patients with HNC in terms of relevant psychological variables in HNC
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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