Duarte Cristiana, Stubbs James, Pinto-Gouveia José, Matos Marcela, Gale Corinne, Morris Liam, Gilbert Paul
Cognitive and Behavioural Centre for Research and Intervention (CINEICC), Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal.
Obes Facts. 2017;10(2):65-75. doi: 10.1159/000454834. Epub 2017 Apr 4.
Certain psychological and emotional factors can undermine attempts at weight management. Previously we have found that shame and self-criticism were significantly associated with disinhibition and perceived hunger in 2,236 participants of a weight management programme. This effect was fully mediated through weight-related negative affect. The present study examined the impact of self-criticism and self-reassurance on well-being and whether it was mediated by weight-related affect in the same population.
Participants completed an online survey of measures of self-criticism and self-reassurance, and negative and positive affect associated with weight and well-being.
Path analysis suggested that self-criticism was significantly associated with decreased well-being, both directly and indirectly, mediated by increased negative and decreased positive weight-related affect. Self-reassurance had a stronger association with increased well-being by predicting lower negative and increased positive weight-related affect. All effects were significant at p < 0.001.
Self-criticism and self-reassurance were related to well-being in participants attempting to manage their weight, both directly and through their impact on weight-related affect. The positive association between self-reassurance and well-being was stronger than the negative association between self-criticism and well-being. Supporting the development of self-reassuring competencies in weight management programmes may improve weight-related affect and well-being.
某些心理和情感因素会破坏体重管理的努力。此前我们发现，在一项体重管理计划的2236名参与者中，羞耻感和自我批评与去抑制和感知饥饿显著相关。这种效应完全通过与体重相关的负面影响介导。本研究考察了自我批评和自我安慰对幸福感的影响，以及在同一人群中它是否由与体重相关的情感介导。
参与者完成了一项关于自我批评和自我安慰的测量，以及与体重和幸福感相关的负面和正面情感的在线调查。
路径分析表明，自我批评与幸福感降低显著相关，这是直接和间接通过增加与体重相关的负面情感和减少正面情感介导的。自我安慰通过预测较低的负面和增加的正面与体重相关的情感，与幸福感增加有更强的关联。所有效应在p<0.001时均显著。
自我批评和自我安慰与试图控制体重的参与者的幸福感相关，这是直接相关以及通过它们对与体重相关情感的影响。自我安慰与幸福感之间的正相关强于自我批评与幸福感之间的负相关。支持在体重管理计划中培养自我安慰能力可能会改善与体重相关的情感和幸福感。
