Loughborough University Centre for Research into Eating Disorders, School of Sport, Exercise and Health Science, UK.
Eur Eat Disord Rev. 2012 Nov;20(6):510-4. doi: 10.1002/erv.2198. Epub 2012 Aug 30.
Previous research has suggested that invalidating childhood environments are positively related to the symptoms of eating disorders. However, it is unclear how childhood environments might impact upon the development of eating disorder symptoms. This study examined the relationship between parental invalidation and eating disorder-related attitudes in a nonclinical sample and tested the mediating effect of attitudes towards emotional expression. Two hundred women, with a mean age of 21 years, completed measures of invalidating childhood environments, attitudes towards emotional expression, and eating pathology. Eating concerns were positively associated with recollections of an invalidating parental environment. The belief that the expression of emotions is a sign of weakness fully mediated the relationship between childhood maternal invalidation and adult eating concern. Following replication and extension to a clinical sample, these results suggest that targeting the individual's attitude towards emotional expression might reduce eating attitudes among women who have experienced an invalidating childhood environment.
先前的研究表明，否定童年环境与饮食失调症状呈正相关。然而，目前尚不清楚童年环境如何影响饮食失调症状的发展。本研究在非临床样本中检验了父母否定与饮食失调相关态度之间的关系，并测试了对情绪表达的态度的中介作用。200 名女性，平均年龄 21 岁，完成了否定童年环境、对情绪表达的态度和饮食障碍的测量。饮食问题与对父母否定的回忆呈正相关。认为表达情绪是软弱的表现这一信念完全中介了童年期母亲否定与成人饮食担忧之间的关系。在对临床样本进行复制和扩展后，这些结果表明，针对个体对情绪表达的态度可能会减少经历否定童年环境的女性的饮食态度。
