Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC G8Z 4M3, Canada.
Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
Nutrients. 2021 Oct 30;13(11):3907. doi: 10.3390/nu13113907.
Mothers' eating behaviours are important to ensure the health and well-being of themselves and their families. Recent research has pointed to self-compassion, defined as extending kindness to oneself in times of perceived inadequacy or general suffering, as a trait associated with healthy forms of eating, such as intuitive eating, and reduced maladaptive forms of eating, such as emotional eating. However, little is known about the psychological mechanism through which self-compassion relates to healthy eating behaviours. This study examined 100 mothers' levels of self-compassion, body esteem and eating behaviours. Structural equation modelling revealed that self-compassion was positively associated with diet quality and intuitive eating, while being negatively associated with emotional eating. Moreover, these links occurred, in part, due to higher body esteem. This points to a mechanism through which self-compassion may positively contribute to mothers' healthy eating behaviours. The implications for eating outcomes and women's health are discussed.
母亲的饮食习惯对于确保她们自身和家庭的健康和幸福至关重要。最近的研究指出，自我同情是一种与健康的饮食习惯相关的特质，它被定义为在感到不足或普遍受苦时对自己表示善意，例如直觉饮食，并减少适应不良的饮食习惯，如情绪化饮食。然而，人们对自我同情与健康饮食习惯之间的心理机制知之甚少。本研究调查了 100 位母亲的自我同情、身体自尊和饮食习惯水平。结构方程模型显示，自我同情与饮食质量和直觉饮食呈正相关，而与情绪化饮食呈负相关。此外，这些联系的产生部分归因于更高的身体自尊。这表明自我同情可能通过积极促进母亲的健康饮食习惯来发挥作用。讨论了这些发现对饮食结果和女性健康的意义。
