#510: Social Comparison: Evidence on its Impacts & What We Can Do – Shannon Beer

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 633 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Social comparison theory, developed by psychologist Leon Festinger in the 1950s, posits that individuals determine their own social and personal worth based on how they stack up against others. This theory suggests that people engage in social comparisons to evaluate their abilities, opinions, and attributes, often choosing relevant others for comparison.

In the realm of body image and self-perception, social comparison theory becomes particularly pertinent, as individuals tend to assess their own bodies in relation to societal ideals and the bodies of others. This process of comparison can have profound implications for body dissatisfaction and the development of disordered eating patterns.

This raises thought-provoking questions about the impact of social comparison theory on body image and eating behaviors.

In this episode, Shannon Beer explores these questions and offers valuable insights into the complex interplay between societal influences, individual perceptions, and the development of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating.

About The Guest:

Shannon Beer is a registered nutritionist, health and confidence coach and certified Compassionate Mind Training facilitator.

Shannon works with people aiming to improve their health through facilitating lasting behaviour change in their approach to diet, exercise and body image.

She has developed a coaching framework that applies motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral coaching, and acceptance and commitment therapy-aligned processes in a client-centered alliance toward their own values-based goals.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 510 of the podcast. I'm your host, Danny Lennon, and a big welcome to this episode. Thank you so
0:24.6	much for joining in. Today I'm going to be talking to Shannon Beer, who has been on the podcast
0:29.6	maybe a few years ago now at this point and is returning today to talk all about the impact
0:35.0	of social comparisons, looking at evidence tracing back from the
0:39.8	original social comparison theory to more recent work and how that translates into things
0:44.4	like body dissatisfaction, eating disorder pathology, etc. Shannon has been coaching for a number of
0:50.5	years now where predominantly she works with people aiming to improve their body image
0:55.1	in some way or who have other health-orientated goals that could benefit from a compassion-based
1:01.0	approach. I'm sure we'll discuss some of this throughout the episode. If you're a Sigma Nutrition
1:06.6	Premium subscriber, you'll be able to get detailed study notes to this episode where everything
1:10.9	we cover will be broken down, we'll add in some diagrams, further explanations, easy ways
1:16.6	to recap, bullet points, etc. That you might find useful to go back over this material, to
1:22.2	revise it, but also to understand it a bit better. And you'll have that as a beautiful PDF,
1:27.3	which you can keep
1:28.1	all into the future. You can also get a transcript to this episode if you were one of our
1:32.1	premium subscribers and you get a bunch of other benefits including our premium exclusive episodes
1:37.5	only available on the premium feed of the podcast. So that is Sigma Nutrition Premium,
1:42.3	linked up in the description box wherever you're currently listening.
1:46.5	And also you can find details about where you can find Shannon on the internet, some of her materials, and particularly in relation to her course she runs on social comparisons.
1:55.4	So all of that is linked in the description box wherever you are currently listening right now.
1:59.9	Or you can find it over on
2:02.0	the episode page, this podcast. So if you just go to sigma nutrition.com, you'll be able to find
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