Mitchell Linas, MacArthur Heather J, Blomquist Kerstin K
Department of Psychology, Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Int J Eat Disord. 2021 Jul;54(7):1295-1301. doi: 10.1002/eat.23537. Epub 2021 May 11.
Despite research findings that transgender individuals have higher rates of body dissatisfaction and disordered eating than their cisgender peers, reasons for greater eating pathology remain unclear. We propose a Misgendering-Congruence Process by which being misgendered (i.e., labeled a gender other than that with which one identifies) could lead transgender individuals to feel greater incongruence between their bodies and internal identities, which in turn leads to body dissatisfaction and efforts to bring one's body in line with one's identified gender by engaging in weight and shape control behaviors such as dietary restraint.
One hundred and thirty transgender individuals completed measures of misgendering frequency, transgender congruence, body dissatisfaction, and dietary restraint.
Mediation analyses provided preliminary support for the Misgendering-Congruence Process when conducted with the overall sample as well as with transgender subgroups: transgender women (n = 41), transgender men (n = 42), and nonbinary transgender individuals (n = 47).
Social recognition of transgender people's gender identities appears to play a unique role in their body satisfaction and restrained eating behaviors.
尽管研究发现跨性别者比顺性别同龄人有更高的身体不满率和饮食失调率，但饮食病理学发生率更高的原因仍不清楚。我们提出了一种错称-一致性过程，即被错称（即被贴上与其自我认同的性别不同的标签）会导致跨性别者感到其身体与内在身份之间的不一致性更大，这反过来又会导致身体不满，并促使他们通过采取如饮食限制等体重和体型控制行为，使自己的身体与所认同的性别相符。
130名跨性别者完成了错称频率、跨性别一致性、身体不满和饮食限制的测量。
当对总体样本以及跨性别亚组（跨性别女性，n = 41；跨性别男性，n = 42；非二元性别跨性别者，n = 47）进行中介分析时，为错称-一致性过程提供了初步支持。
社会对跨性别者性别认同的认可似乎在他们的身体满意度和饮食限制行为中起着独特作用。
