Coping with Body Image Threats among College Women: The Swimsuit Problem
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Abstract
This study explored college women’s (N = 104) strategies for coping with a high- and low-social-evaluativebody image threat. Using an experimental design, participants read and imagined themselves in one of twoscenarios: a high-social-evaluative body image threat condition (modeling a swimsuit in front of friends) or alow-social-evaluative body image threat condition (modeling a swimsuit alone) and described strategies formanaging these situations. An inductive and deductive thematic approach was used to analyze the writtenresponses. In order of frequency, the following themes were found for the high-social-evaluative threat condition:avoidance, appeasement, positive rational acceptance, social support, and social comparison. In order offrequency for the low-social-evaluative condition the following themes were found: appeasement, positiverational acceptance, avoidance, social support, outsider’s opinion, and social comparison. Overall, maladaptivestrategies for managing body image stressors (avoidance and appeasement) were reported the most frequentlyacross conditions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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