The Effect Of Cultural Tightness-Looseness On Body Size

As the habitat of the human soul,the "body" has been widely concerned by many disciplines such as medicine,biology,life science,anthropology,sociology,philosophy,and public health management.Based on the theoretical model of socioecological psychology,this study explored the effect of cultural tightness-looseness on body size through three studies,including big data analysis,meta-analysis,and experimental method.Study 1 used big data method to explore the correlation between cultural tightnesslooseness and body size in the 50 states of the United States.The results showed that,for men,the tighter the culture of the state was,the higher the mean BMI of men in that state was.For women,there was no significant correlation between cultural tightnesslooseness and the mean BMI.Study 2 used meta-analysis to explore the influence of typical tight culture prison on the male prisoner's muscular body and fatty body.The re-analysis data were selected from the existing body size research data of male prisoner and normal male in Australia,Mexico,Spain,France,Lybia,and the USA.The results of the meta-analysis showed that the typical tight culture of the prison promoted the male prisoner's muscular body rather than fatty body.Study 3 used an experimental method to explore the causal relationship and the mediating mechanism between cultural tightness-looseness and male body size.The independent variable was cultural tightness-looseness,the dependent variables were muscularity motivation and thinness motivation,and the mediator was the dominant motivation.We manipulated the participant's perception of cultural tightness or cultural looseness by self-compiled cultural tightness-looseness priming materials.The results showed that the cultural tightness encouraged muscularity motivation and thinness motivation,besides,cultural tightness influenced the muscularity motivation and thinness motivation via dominant motivation.This paper finds that there is a significant correlation between cultural tightness-looseness and male body size,besides,cultural tightness encourages male muscular body by dominant motivation.This study used multiple methods to explore the effect of cultural tightness-looseness on human body size,as well as the mediating role of dominative power.The findings of this study not only enrich the theory of power and body size in the psychological system,but also provide a theoretical basis for public health departments to develop scientific,reasonable,and targeted health policies.