Bachner-Melman Rachel, Watermann Yonatan, Lev-Ari Lilac, Zohar Ada H
Clinical Psychology Graduate Program, Ruppin Academic Center, Emek Hefer, Israel.
School of Social Work, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
J Eat Disord. 2022 Mar 21;10(1):41. doi: 10.1186/s40337-022-00569-y.
Disordered eating has been found to be associated with constructs involving self-repression, such as selflessness (the tendency to relinquish one's needs for others'), and concern for appropriateness (an alertness to information about social comparison and tendency to vary one's behavior in different social situations). This study aimed to examine associations between these self-repression variables and symptoms of general psychopathology for women and men in a community sample.
Two hundred and thirty-six participants (92 men) aged 18-76 (M = 29.11 ± 10.10) volunteered to complete online measures of disordered eating, concern for appropriateness (cross-situational variability and attention to social comparison information), selflessness, and symptoms of depression, anxiety and somatization. Structural equation models were built to assess pathways between the study variables for men and women separately.
A MANOVA 2*7 design showed that women scored significantly higher than men on measures of selflessness, disordered eating and depression. For men, selflessness scores were positively and significantly associated only with depression scores. Cross-situational variability scores were positively associated with depression, somatization and anxiety scores. For women, selflessness scores were positively and significantly associated with depression, disordered eating, somatization and anxiety scores. Cross-situational variability scores were positively and significantly associated with depression, anxiety and somatization scores but not with disordered eating scores. Attention to Social Comparison Information scores were positively and significantly associated only with disordered eating scores.
Self-repression is more closely linked to psychopathology in women than in men. For men, self-suppression seems to be associated with symptoms of internalizing disorders, but not disordered eating. Even for women, it appears that self-repression is not connected exclusively with disordered eating, but with symptoms of psychopathology in general. Future research should explore why self-suppression plays such a central role in women's psychopathology.
已发现饮食失调与涉及自我压抑的构念相关，比如无私（为他人放弃自身需求的倾向）和对适宜性的关注（对社会比较信息的警觉以及在不同社会情境中改变自身行为的倾向）。本研究旨在检验社区样本中这些自我压抑变量与男性和女性一般精神病理学症状之间的关联。
236名年龄在18 - 76岁（M = 29.11 ± 10.10）的参与者（92名男性）自愿完成关于饮食失调、对适宜性的关注（跨情境变异性和对社会比较信息的关注）、无私以及抑郁、焦虑和躯体化症状的在线测量。构建结构方程模型分别评估男性和女性研究变量之间的路径。
一项2×7的多变量方差分析表明，女性在无私、饮食失调和抑郁测量上的得分显著高于男性。对于男性，无私得分仅与抑郁得分呈显著正相关。跨情境变异性得分与抑郁、躯体化和焦虑得分呈正相关。对于女性，无私得分与抑郁、饮食失调、躯体化和焦虑得分呈显著正相关。跨情境变异性得分与抑郁、焦虑和躯体化得分呈显著正相关，但与饮食失调得分无关。对社会比较信息的关注得分仅与饮食失调得分呈显著正相关。
自我压抑在女性中比在男性中与精神病理学的联系更为紧密。对于男性，自我抑制似乎与内化障碍症状相关，但与饮食失调无关。即使对于女性，自我压抑似乎也并非仅与饮食失调相关，而是与一般精神病理学症状相关。未来研究应探索为何自我抑制在女性精神病理学中起如此核心的作用。
