School of Education and Behavioural Science, University of Borås, Borås, Sweden.
Eat Disord. 2012;20(4):288-99. doi: 10.1080/10640266.2012.689212.
Adopting the construct of possible selves, which are conceptions of our selves in future situations, the objective of this study was to investigate how anorexia patients differ from a non-clinical control group in their conceptions of the future on qualitative content, and the four quantitative dimensions positive and negative emotional valence, and beliefs about probability and controllability. The Possible Selves Statements Test was employed. Participants presented 14 possible selves by completing the question "I can see myself …" and rating each possible self on the 4 dimensions. The patients reported a larger number of negative possible selves, with higher negative valence, often seeing future everyday situations as negative, whereas the control group saw similar situations as positive. The anorexia patients also reported negative possible selves with high controllability and high probability in relation to such situations and in some cases rated recovery from anorexia with a negative valence. Clinical implications are discussed.
采用可能自我的结构，即对未来情境中自我的设想，本研究旨在调查厌食症患者与非临床对照组在未来设想的定性内容，以及正性和负性情感效价、对可能性和可控性的信念这四个定量维度上存在何种差异。采用了“可能自我陈述测试”。参与者通过回答“我可以看到自己……”来完成 14 个可能自我的设想，并在这 4 个维度上对每个可能自我进行评分。患者报告了更多的消极可能自我，其负性效价更高，他们经常将未来的日常情境视为消极的，而对照组则将类似的情境视为积极的。厌食症患者还报告了与这些情境相关的、具有高可控性和高可能性的消极可能自我，而且在某些情况下，他们对从厌食症中康复的评价带有负性效价。文章还讨论了临床意义。
