Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
CINEICC-Centre for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive Behavioural Intervention, Universidade de Coimbra, Rua do Colégio Novo, Apartado 6153, 3001-802, Coimbra, Portugal.
Eat Weight Disord. 2020 Apr;25(2):291-297. doi: 10.1007/s40519-018-0581-3. Epub 2018 Sep 18.
The relationship between self-compassion and well-being and health (e.g. a lower proneness for eating-related disturbances) is well stressed in the literature. However, the specific contribution of self-compassionate attributes, actions, and body compassion remains scarcely studied. The main aim of the present study was to examine whether the link between self-compassionate attributes and disordered eating attitudes and behaviours is mediated by self-compassionate actions and body compassion, in a sample of 299 Portuguese women from the general population. The tested model explained 44% of eating psychopathology's variance and presented excellent fit indices. The most interesting contribution of this study was the suggestion that the ability to act in accordance with self-compassionate attributes is associated with higher levels of body compassion, that is, an attitude of appreciation, acceptance, warmth toward body-related thoughts, perceptions and feelings, which reflects in a lower susceptibility to adopt disordered eating attitudes and behaviours. These results seem to offer an important contribution for research and clinical practice by supporting the importance of including strategies to develop self-compassionate skills and body compassion competencies in prevention and treatment programs in the area of eating psychopathology.Level of evidence Level III, evidence obtained from a well-designed cohort.
自我同情与幸福感和健康（例如，降低与饮食相关的紊乱倾向）之间的关系在文献中得到了很好的强调。然而，自我同情的属性、行为和身体同情的具体贡献仍鲜有研究。本研究的主要目的是在一个来自普通人群的 299 名葡萄牙女性样本中，检验自我同情属性与饮食失调态度和行为之间的联系是否通过自我同情行为和身体同情来中介。所测试的模型解释了 44%的饮食病理学的变异性，并呈现出极好的拟合指数。这项研究最有趣的贡献是，根据自我同情属性采取行动的能力与更高水平的身体同情有关，即对与身体相关的想法、感知和感觉的欣赏、接受和温暖的态度，这反映出对采用饮食失调态度和行为的敏感性降低。这些结果似乎为研究和临床实践提供了重要贡献，支持了在饮食病理学领域的预防和治疗计划中纳入发展自我同情技能和身体同情能力的策略的重要性。
证据水平 三级，从精心设计的队列中获得的证据。
