Wu Hannah X, Chen Tiffany T, Ching Boby H-H, Li Xiang Y, Li Yuan H
Faculty of Education, University of Macau, Avenida da Universidade, Taipa, Macau, China.
Scand J Psychol. 2024 Apr;65(2):157-167. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12965. Epub 2023 Sep 7.
Social devaluation of being overweight is common in daily life, but little is known about the weight stigma in romantic relationships. The present study investigated the roles of maladaptive and adaptive coping strategies in the relation between the experience of weight stigma in romantic relationships and depressive symptoms in men and women, respectively. Analyses of gender differences and structural equation modeling yielded several findings. First, while men and women experienced similar levels of weight stigma from their romantic partners, women were more likely to use exercise avoidance, disengagement coping, and reappraisal coping strategies, and to exhibit more depressive symptoms than men. Second, men who experienced weight stigma tended to cope with it through exercise avoidance and disengagement coping, which were related to greater depressive symptoms. Men also coped with weight stigma adaptively via reappraisal coping, which was additionally associated with more positive affect. Third, the relation between the experience of weight stigma and depressive symptoms in women was only explained by using disengagement coping. These findings extend the understanding of weight stigma to a specific context and provide some insight that future interventions to reduce the impacts of weight stigma should be tailored accordingly for men and women.
在日常生活中，超重所带来的社会贬值现象很常见，但对于恋爱关系中的体重歧视却知之甚少。本研究分别调查了适应不良和适应良好的应对策略在恋爱关系中体重歧视经历与男性和女性抑郁症状之间关系中的作用。对性别差异的分析和结构方程模型得出了几个结果。首先，虽然男性和女性从恋爱伴侣那里经历的体重歧视程度相似，但女性更倾向于采用避免运动、脱离应对和重新评价应对策略，并且比男性表现出更多的抑郁症状。其次，经历体重歧视的男性倾向于通过避免运动和脱离应对来应对，这与更严重的抑郁症状有关。男性也通过重新评价应对来适应性地应对体重歧视，这还与更积极的情绪有关。第三，女性体重歧视经历与抑郁症状之间的关系仅通过脱离应对来解释。这些发现将对体重歧视的理解扩展到了一个特定背景，并提供了一些见解，即未来减少体重歧视影响的干预措施应根据男性和女性的情况进行相应调整。
