ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
Understanding Appearance-Enhancing Drug Use in Sport Using an Enactive Approach to Body Image.
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- Navigating in the Gray Area of Coach-Athlete Relationships in Sports: Toward an In-depth Analysis of the Dynamics of Athlete Maltreatment Experiences.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Social Media, Body Image and Resistance Training: Creating the Perfect 'Me' with Dietary Supplements, Anabolic Steroids and SARM's.Sports medicine - open · 2021Article
- The Problematic Experience of Players' Mutations Between Clubs: Discovering the Social Adaptability Skills Required.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2021Article
- Effects of Appearance- and Performance-Enhancing Drugs on Personality Traits.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Optimizing Performative Skills in Social Interaction: Insights From Embodied Cognition, Music Education, and Sport Psychology.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Preventing Opioid Use Disorders among Fishing Industry Workers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Understanding the Paths to Appearance- and Performance-Enhancing Drug Use in Bodybuilding.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
From an enactive approach to human activity, we suggest that the use of appearance-enhancing drugs is better explained by the sense-making related to body image rather than the cognitive evaluation of social norms about appearance and consequent psychopathology-oriented approach. After reviewing the main psychological disorders thought to link body image issues to the use of appearance-enhancing substances, we sketch a flexible, dynamic and embedded account of body image defined as the individual's propensity to act and experience in specific situations. We show how this enacted body image is a complex process of sense-making that people engage in when they are trying to adapt to specific situations. These adaptations of the enacted body image require effort, perseverance and time, and therefore any substance that accelerates this process appears to be an easy and attractive solution. In this enactive account of body image, we underline that the link between the enacted body image and substance use is also anchored in the history of the body's previous interactions with the world. This emerges during periods of upheaval and hardship, especially in a context where athletes experience weak participatory sense-making in a sport community. We conclude by suggesting prevention and intervention designs that would promote a safe instrumental use of the body in sports and psychological helping procedures for athletes experiencing difficulties with substances use and body image.
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