Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, The Netherlands.
Body Image. 2013 Jun;10(3):411-4. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2013.03.002. Epub 2013 Apr 8.
We predicted that an expectancy of acquiring a feared fat self and an expectancy of acquiring a hoped-for thin self both mediate the impact of body size on women's body esteem. We also predicted that the mediating pathway through the feared fat self would be stronger than that through the hoped-for thin self. A community sample of 251 women reported their age, height, weight, and completed measures of body esteem and expectancy perceptions of acquiring the feared fat and hoped-for thin selves. Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) demonstrated that expectancies about the feared fat self and about the hoped-for thin self mediated the relationship between body size and body esteem. Bayesian SEM also revealed that the pathway through the feared fat self was stronger than that through the hoped-for thin self. Implications for future research and the development of eating pathology are discussed.
我们预测，对获得恐惧肥胖自我的期望和对获得期望苗条自我的期望都会在身体大小对女性身体自尊的影响中起中介作用。我们还预测，通过恐惧肥胖自我的中介途径会比通过期望苗条自我的中介途径更强。一项由 251 名女性组成的社区样本报告了她们的年龄、身高、体重，并完成了身体自尊和对获得恐惧肥胖和期望苗条自我的期望感知的测量。贝叶斯结构方程建模（SEM）表明，对恐惧肥胖自我和期望苗条自我的期望在身体大小和身体自尊之间起中介作用。贝叶斯 SEM 还表明，通过恐惧肥胖自我的途径比通过期望苗条自我的途径更强。讨论了对未来研究和进食障碍发展的影响。
