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- Two online surveys with 266 men found that their created avatars are typically thinner and more muscular than their actual bodies, reflecting ideals rather than reality.
- Men's concerns about their avatar's appearance were linked to their real-life weight and muscle issues, indicating that differences between avatars and actual bodies may heighten worries about body image.
- Additionally, men reported better self-esteem and lower social anxiety when interacting online, suggesting that avatars can help balance or compensate for insecurities in offline social contexts.
Article Abstract
Two online surveys examined the significance of the visual analogues, or 'avatars', men (total N=266) create and use online. Two-dimensional (adiposity×muscle) somatomorphic matrices revealed that avatars are generally thinner than their creator's actual body and similar to their ideal, but more muscular than either their actual or ideal. Men's ratings of the importance of their avatar's appearance correlated with their actual weight and muscle concerns, and disparity between their avatar and actual body dimensions predicted their offline context body change concerns additional to that accounted for by disparity between their ideal and actual bodies. Together with the observation that men also reported higher self-esteem, less social interaction anxiety and less social phobia while online (which correlated with the time they spent online), these results suggest that the physical dimensions of avatars used in social interactions online may serve a compensatory function.
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