Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Department of Human Sciences, European University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Psychol Health Med. 2021 Apr;26(4):408-420. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2020.1742926. Epub 2020 Mar 31.
Binge eating and binge drinking are two of the most common health-risk behaviors among young people showing to frequently co-occur in nonclinical samples of adolescent boys and girls. The present study examined the role of different dimensions of family functioning in binge behaviors among adolescents. One thousand and twenty young to late adolescents (507 girls and 517 boys) with ages ranging from 16 to 22 years participated in the study and completed a survey of self-report measures. Our findings showed that adolescents who binge eat and drink and adolescents who only binge eat perceived a lower quality of family functioning with lower levels of cohesion, flexibility, communication, satisfaction and higher degree of disengagement compared to adolescents who do not binge and adolescents who only binge drink. Only adolescents who engage in both binge behaviors reported higher levels of chaotic style compared to other binge groups. Furthermore, living in families poorly flexible, highly disengaged and with communication problems among members resulted as risk factors for binge eating behavior. Results suggest the importance for prevention programs to be based on an integrated approach focused on improving family environment such as the ability in changing family structure to deal effectively with developmental problems and defining clear home rules adolescents may stand on.
binge 进食和 binge 饮酒是年轻人中最常见的两种健康风险行为，在青少年男孩和女孩的非临床样本中经常同时出现。本研究探讨了家庭功能的不同维度在青少年 binge 行为中的作用。1020 名年龄在 16 至 22 岁之间的青少年（507 名女孩和 517 名男孩）参加了这项研究，并完成了一份自我报告的测量问卷。我们的研究结果表明，与不 binge 且不 binge 饮酒的青少年相比， binge 进食和饮酒的青少年以及仅 binge 进食的青少年感知到家庭功能的质量较低，家庭凝聚力、灵活性、沟通、满意度较低，脱离度较高。与其他 binge 群体相比，仅同时从事 binge 两种行为的青少年报告说具有更高程度的混乱风格。此外，生活在灵活性差、脱离度高且成员之间存在沟通问题的家庭中是 binge 进食行为的风险因素。研究结果表明，预防计划的重要性在于采取基于综合方法，重点改善家庭环境，例如改变家庭结构以有效应对发展问题和制定青少年可以遵守的明确家庭规则的能力。
