Dataset for paper: Body Positivity but not for everyone

Data for a Brief Report/Short Communication published in Body Image (2021).
Details of the study are included below via the abstract from the manuscript.

The dataset includes online experimental data from 167 women who were
recruited via social media and institutional participant pools. The experiment
was completed in Qualtrics.
Women viewed either neutral travel images (control), body positivity
posts with an average-sized model (e.g., ~ UK size 14), or body positivity
posts with a larger model (e.g., UK size 18+); which images women viewed is
show in the ‘condition’ variable in the data.
The data includes the age range, height, weight, calculated BMI, and Instagram
use of participants. After viewing the images, women responded to the Positive
and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), a state version of the Body Satisfaction
Scale (BSS), and reported their immediate social comparison with the images (SAC
items). Women then selected a lunch for themselves from a hypothetical menu;
these selections are detailed in the data, as are the total calories calculated
from this and the proportion of their picks which were (provided as a
percentage, and as a categorical variable [as used in the paper analyses]).
Women also reported whether they were on a special diet (e.g., vegan or vegetarian),
had food intolerances, when they last ate, and how hungry they were.

Women also completed trait measures of Body Appreciation (BAS-2) and
social comparison (PACS-R). Women also were asked to comment on what they
thought the experiment was about. Items and computed scales are included within
the dataset.
This item includes the dataset collected for the manuscript (in SPSS and
CSV formats), the variable list for the CSV file (for users working with the
CSV datafile; the variable list and details are contained within the .sav file
for the SPSS version), and the SPSS syntax for our analyses (.sps). Also
included are the information and consent form (collected via Qualtrics) and the
questions as completed by participants (both in pdf format).
Please note that the survey order in the PDF is not the same as in the
datafiles; users should utilise the variable list (either in CSV or SPSS formats)
to identify the items in the data.
The SPSS syntax can be used to replicate the analyses reported in the
Results section of the paper. Annotations within the syntax file guide the user
through these.

A copy of SPSS Statistics is needed to open the .sav and .sps files.

Manuscript abstract:

Body Positivity (or ‘BoPo’) social media content may be beneficial for
women’s mood and body image, but concerns have been raised that it may reduce
motivation for healthy behaviours. This study examines differences in women’s
mood, body satisfaction, and hypothetical food choices after viewing BoPo posts
(featuring average or larger women) or a neutral travel control. Women (N =
167, 81.8% aged 18-29) were randomly assigned in an online experiment to one of
three conditions (BoPo-average, BoPo-larger, or Travel/Control) and viewed
three Instagram posts for two minutes, before reporting their mood and body
satisfaction, and selecting a meal from a hypothetical menu. Women who viewed
the BoPo posts featuring average-size women reported more positive mood than
the control group; women who viewed posts featuring larger women did not. There
were no effects of condition on negative mood or body satisfaction. Women did
not make less healthy food choices than the control in either BoPo condition;
women who viewed the BoPo images of larger women showed a stronger association
between hunger and calories selected. These findings suggest that concerns over
BoPo promoting unhealthy behaviours may be misplaced, but further research is
needed regarding women’s responses to different body sizes.