CINEICC - Cognitive and Behavioural Centre for Research and Intervention, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
CINEICC - Cognitive and Behavioural Centre for Research and Intervention, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Appetite. 2018 Jun 1;125:118-123. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.01.031. Epub 2018 Feb 7.
Body compassion is a new construct which incorporates two multidimensional concepts: body image and self-compassion. Self-compassion has been revealed as a protective mechanism against body image and eating-related-related disturbances, including eating disorders. However, the study of this compassionate competence specifically focused on the domain of the body is still largely unexplored. This study aims to test whether body compassion moderate the impact of external shame on body image shame and disordered eating, in a sample of 354 women from the Portuguese general population. Correlation analyses showed that body compassion was negatively associated with experiences of shame and disordered eating. Path analysis results demonstrated the existence of a moderator effect of body compassion on the relationship between general feelings of shame and both body image shame and related behaviours, and disordered eating symptomatology. In fact, results suggested that body compassion buffered the impact of general feelings of shame on these psychopathological indices, with the tested model accounting for 46% and 39% of the variance of body image shame and disordered eating, respectively. This study contributes to a better understanding of the role of body compassion in body image and eating difficulties. Body compassion seems to be an important protector of these difficulties in women by buffering the effects of general shame on body image shame and related body concealment behaviours, as well as disordered eating. The findings from this study thus appear to offer important research and clinical implications, supporting the relevance of promoting body compassion in prevention and treatment programs for body image difficulties and disordered eating.
身体共情是一个新的建构，它包含了两个多维概念：身体意象和自我共情。自我共情已被揭示为一种保护机制，可以预防身体意象和与饮食相关的障碍，包括饮食失调。然而，专门针对身体领域的这种共情能力的研究仍然在很大程度上尚未得到探索。本研究旨在检验身体共情是否能调节外部羞耻感对身体意象羞耻感和饮食失调的影响，研究对象为来自葡萄牙普通人群的 354 名女性。相关分析表明，身体共情与羞耻感和饮食失调体验呈负相关。路径分析结果表明，身体共情对一般羞耻感与身体意象羞耻感和相关行为以及饮食失调症状之间的关系存在调节作用。事实上，结果表明，身体共情缓冲了一般羞耻感对这些心理病理指标的影响，所测试的模型分别解释了身体意象羞耻感和饮食失调的 46%和 39%的方差。本研究有助于更好地理解身体共情在身体意象和饮食困难中的作用。身体共情似乎通过缓冲一般羞耻感对身体意象羞耻感和相关身体隐藏行为以及饮食失调的影响，成为这些女性应对这些困难的重要保护者。因此，这项研究的结果似乎提供了重要的研究和临床意义，支持在身体意象困难和饮食失调的预防和治疗计划中促进身体共情的相关性。
