Implications
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The current study provides a number of important implications for future body
image and SSPT research. First, it offers further support for the idea that male
athletes and non-athletes experience meaningful and impactful body image
concerns comparable to women (Within the context of SSPT, this study provides further evidence for the
integration of SSPT within a body image context by demonstrating the impact of
body image SETs on non-athletes’ and athletes’ psychobiological responses. Much
of the SSPT literature has utilized performance-based SETs (i.e., speech tasks;
The current study provides evidence of the physiological consequences of acute
body image stressors involving social evaluation in male athletes. These
social-evaluative body image threats, and subsequent physiological responses,
may frequently occur within Western society as Western culture tends to place
great importance and pressure on people and athletes to meet body image ideals
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