Body Aware: Adolescents' and Young Adults' Lived Experiences of Body Awareness.

IF 2.7 4区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Psychologica Belgica Pub Date : 2024-08-12 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.5334/pb.1295
Marbella Pérez-Peña, Jessica Notermans, Jeanne Petit, Katleen Van der Gucht, Pierre Philippot
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Abstract

Paying attention to body sensations has been associated with many positive outcomes such as increased subjective well-being, enhanced emotion regulation, and reduced symptom reports. Furthermore, body awareness has an important therapeutic utility in the treatment of various psychological ailments. Despite its importance in mental health, there is very little research on body awareness during adolescence and young adulthood - important developmental periods characterized by bodily changes and the development of one's relationship to one's body. Therefore, the present qualitative study sought to explore how body awareness is understood, experienced, and described by adolescents and young adults. Four online focus groups were conducted with young people between the ages of 14 and 24 (N = 20). Thematic analyses revealed a multidimensional and highly contextualized understanding and experience of body awareness in this age group. In general, young people reported mainly attending to intense and unpleasant body sensations with a particular attitude (e.g., accepting or avoidant) depending on the type of sensation, leading to a variety of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral reactions to these sensations. These processes were embedded in an underlying schema of beliefs about body awareness and an overarching physical and socio-cultural context. Results further revealed a more nuanced experience and understanding of body awareness in women and in young adults. The present findings can be used as a foundation for the development of body awareness theoretical frameworks and self-report instruments for youth and can aid the generating of hypotheses for future research on body awareness in this age group.

身体意识:青少年对身体意识的生活体验。
关注身体感觉与许多积极的结果有关,如增加主观幸福感、加强情绪调节和减少症状报告。此外,身体意识在治疗各种心理疾病方面也具有重要的治疗作用。尽管身体意识对心理健康非常重要,但有关青春期和青年期身体意识的研究却非常少,而青春期和青年期是身体变化和个人与身体关系发展的重要发展时期。因此,本定性研究试图探索青少年和年轻成年人是如何理解、体验和描述身体意识的。我们与 14-24 岁的青少年(20 人)进行了四次在线焦点小组讨论。专题分析表明,这个年龄段的青少年对身体意识的理解和体验是多维的、高度情景化的。一般来说,年轻人主要以一种特定的态度(如接受或回避)来关注强烈和不愉快的身体感觉,这取决于感觉的类型,从而导致对这些感觉的各种认知、情绪和行为反应。这些过程蕴含在关于身体意识的基本信念图式以及总体的物理和社会文化背景中。研究结果进一步揭示了女性和年轻人对身体意识更细致入微的体验和理解。本研究结果可作为开发青少年身体意识理论框架和自我报告工具的基础,并有助于为今后研究这一年龄组的身体意识提出假设。
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Psychologica Belgica
Psychologica Belgica PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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