Argyrides Marios, Anastasiades Elly
Department of Psychology, Neapolis University Pafos, Pafos, Cyprus.
Front Psychol. 2022 Nov 24;13:1033720. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1033720. eCollection 2022.
To date, research on eating behaviors has largely taken a pathological approach. Researchers are increasingly taking a positive approach to explore adaptive eating styles. One such style that has recently received much research attention is intuitive eating. Recent work examining intuitive eating and its relationships with body mass and gender has yielded mixed findings. The current study explored the differential effects of gender and body mass on intuitive eating scores in a sample of Greek-Cypriot adults.
A total of 1,312 adult participants (women = 655; = 34.49) completed the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 and provided demographic information.
Our analyses revealed that men reported significantly higher intuitive eating scores than women. Body mass was significantly inversely associated with intuitive eating in both men and women. Additionally, a multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) indicated significant interaction effects between gender and body mass on intuitive eating. These interaction effects were explored for each of the four subscales of intuitive eating, identifying differential associations for intuitive eating and BMI between men and women.
Both gender and body mass are important factors which influence intuitive eating levels in Greek-Cypriot adults. Discussions of how these findings can inform future research, theory and practice are presented.
迄今为止，对饮食行为的研究大多采用病理学方法。研究人员越来越多地采用积极的方法来探索适应性饮食方式。最近受到大量研究关注的一种饮食方式是直觉饮食。近期关于直觉饮食及其与体重和性别的关系的研究结果不一。本研究探讨了性别和体重对希族塞浦路斯成年人样本中直觉饮食得分的不同影响。
共有1312名成年参与者（女性 = 655名；平均年龄 = 34.49岁）完成了直觉饮食量表 -2并提供了人口统计学信息。
我们的分析显示，男性报告的直觉饮食得分显著高于女性。体重在男性和女性中均与直觉饮食呈显著负相关。此外，多变量方差分析（MANOVA）表明性别和体重对直觉饮食有显著的交互作用。针对直觉饮食的四个子量表分别探讨了这些交互作用，确定了男性和女性在直觉饮食与体重指数之间的不同关联。
性别和体重都是影响希族塞浦路斯成年人直觉饮食水平的重要因素。本文讨论了这些研究结果如何为未来的研究、理论和实践提供参考。
