Familial transmission of attention allocation towards one’s own and a peer’s body: An eye-tracking study with male adolescents and their fathers
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| Title: | Familial transmission of attention allocation towards one’s own and a peer’s body: An eye-tracking study with male adolescents and their fathers |
| Authors: | Arkenau, Rike Bauer, Anika Schneider, Silvia Vocks, Silja |
| ORCID of the author: | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8498-9466 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-8411 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9905-5241 |
| Abstract: | Previous research provides evidence of maternally transmitted body-related attentional biases in female adolescents. In contrast, it remains unclear whether a familial transmission of body-related attentional biases also exists within father-son dyads. Therefore, the current study examined n = 42 male adolescents and their fathers with respect to direct and indirect paternal influences on body-related attention patterns and specific body-related concerns in sons. Besides completing specific body image questionnaires, participants were shown pictures of their own and a respective peer’s body, while their eye movements were tracked. The fathers additionally viewed the body pictures of their own son and an adolescent peer. Contrary to the assumed direct and indirect paternal transmission processes, the sons’ body-related attention patterns were not significantly associated with the perceived amount of paternal body-related feedback, with the fathers’ attention patterns towards their own son’s and the adolescent peer’s body, or with the fathers’ attention patterns towards their own and the adult peer’s body. Similarly, no significant associations were found between direct or indirect paternal influences and the sons’ drives for muscularity and thinness, body dissatisfaction, and muscularity-related body-checking behavior. Comparing the present findings with previous research indicating a maternal transmission of body-related attentional biases and body-related concerns in female adolescents, alternative (not gender-linked) familial transmission processes, e.g., via one’s own mother, or a comparatively higher relevance of other sociocultural influences, e.g., via peers or the media, might be assumed for male adolescents. |
| Citations: | Arkenau R, Bauer A, Schneider S, Vocks S (2022): Familial transmission of attention allocation towards one’s own and a peer’s body: An eye-tracking study with male adolescents and their fathers. PLoS ONE 17(1): e0263223 |
| URL: | https://doi.org/10.48693/249 https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/ds-202302108249 |
| Subject Keywords: | Adolescents; Fathers; Eating disorders; Mothers; Body weight; Parenting behavior; Attention; Eye movements |
| Issue Date: | 31-Jan-2022 |
| License name: | Attribution 4.0 International |
| License url: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Type of publication: | Einzelbeitrag in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift [Article] |
| Appears in Collections: | FB08 - Hochschulschriften Open-Access-Publikationsfonds |
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