Redondo Iratxe, Luyten Patrick
University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bizkaia, Spain.
University of Leuven, Belgium.
Bull Menninger Clin. 2018 Summer;82(3):202-223. doi: 10.1521/bumc.2018.82.3.202.
The objective of the study was to investigate whether mindfulness mediated the relationship between attachment and eating disorders in a sample of 323 female university students and 38 anorexic inpatients using structural equation modeling. All insecure attachment subscales were positively related to eating disorder symptoms and negatively to mindfulness. Furthermore, mindfulness scores were negatively associated with eating disorder symptoms. Mediation analyses showed that the relationship between all the insecure attachment subscales and eating disorders was partially mediated by the mindfulness effects. These results are in line with Bateman and Fonagy's (2004a, 2004b) theory that implies a mediating role of mindfulness used as a proxy for mentalizing between attachment and psychopathology. Further research is needed, however, to replicate these findings.
本研究的目的是通过结构方程模型，调查在323名女大学生和38名神经性厌食症住院患者样本中，正念是否介导了依恋与饮食失调之间的关系。所有不安全依恋子量表均与饮食失调症状呈正相关，与正念呈负相关。此外，正念得分与饮食失调症状呈负相关。中介分析表明，所有不安全依恋子量表与饮食失调之间的关系部分由正念效应介导。这些结果与贝特曼和费纳吉（2004a，2004b）的理论一致，该理论暗示正念在依恋与精神病理学之间起中介作用，可作为心理化的替代指标。然而，需要进一步的研究来重复这些发现。
