Examining correlates of body-related shame and guilt in a process model of self-conscious emotions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study tested the relationships in the process model of self-conscious emotions (Tracy & Robins, 2004). It was hypothesized that body-related shame occurs when individuals make stable, uncontrollable, and global attributions about the self and body-related guilt results from unstable, controllable, and specific attributions. Links were expected with identify-goal congruence and relevance, as well as attentional focus on the physical self. After reading hypothetical scenarios, males (n=105) and females (n=168; Mage=20.76±1.73) reported on physical self-worth, identity-goal relevance and congruence, attributions, and guilt and shame. Hierarchical regression analyses controlling for age, sex, and BMI were conducted. Relevance (s=.24), globality (s=.14) and universality (s=.20) were significant correlates of body-related shame (R2=.17). Controllability (s=.17), globality (s=.17), and universality (s=.14) were related to body-related guilt (R2=.13). Physical self-worth accounted for additional variance in body-related guilt (?R2=.03) and shame (?R2=.02). These results provide partial support for the process model, whereby inconsistencies with the model associations may indicate differences in attributional patterns for body-related contexts compared to generalized contexts. Since cognitive attributions play an important role in behaviour change, research is needed to examine the applicability of the process model of self-conscious emotions in context of the physical self.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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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