Bellew Rebecca, Gilbert Paul, Mills Alison, McEwan Kirsten, Gale Corinne
Kingsway Hospital, Mental Health Research Unit, Derby, United Kingdom.
Eat Disord. 2006 Jul-Sep;14(4):313-22. doi: 10.1080/10640260600796242.
Vulnerability to some psychopathologies may be related to feeling the need to compete, strive, and achieve in order to avoid inferiority and rejection. This study explored "insecure striving", (relating to a perceived need to strive to avoid inferiority and its consequence, rejection) in relationship to eating attitudes and appearance anxiety in students. Eating attitudes and appearance anxiety were associated with judgments of inferiority, insecure striving to avoid inferiority, and fear of losing out and were negatively associated to secure non-striving (social acceptance). Further work exploring the way people understand and react to the competitive dynamics of their social groups may illuminate important processes linked to eating disorders.
易患某些精神病理学问题可能与感觉需要竞争、努力和取得成就以避免自卑和被拒绝有关。本研究探讨了“不安全的努力”（与为避免自卑及其后果——被拒绝而努力的感知需求有关）与学生饮食态度和外表焦虑之间的关系。饮食态度和外表焦虑与自卑判断、为避免自卑而进行的不安全努力以及害怕失败相关，并且与安全的不努力（社会接纳）呈负相关。进一步研究人们理解和应对其社会群体竞争动态的方式，可能会揭示与饮食失调相关的重要过程。
