Pereira Da Silva Beatriz, Escelsior Andrea, Biggio Monica, Zizzi Alessio, Belvederi Murri Martino, Guglielmo Riccardo, Inuggi Alberto, Delfante Federico, Marenco Giacomo, Amore Mario, Serafini Gianluca
Department of Neuroscience, Rehabilitation, Ophthalmology, Genetics, and Mother-Child, School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy.
San Martino Hospital (IRCCS), Genova, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2024 Sep 5;15:1420247. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1420247. eCollection 2024.
Peripersonal Space (PS) is represented as the immediate area surrounding an individual. The extent of PS changes in relation to several factors, including emotional states, type of relationship or psychopathology. Attachment anxiety has an impact on the social adaptability of peripersonal space and anxiety and fear are associated with an expansion of peripersonal space, possibly serving as a mechanism of self-protection. Peripersonal space appears to be intricately linked to various psychiatric conditions like anxiety disorders and converging evidence suggests that social maladjustment may predict or exacerbate eating disorder symptoms expression.
Fifty-eight healthy adolescents (38F, 20M) performed a comfort distance estimation task to assess peripersonal space. The Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile (AASP) was used to assess sensory profiles and the SAFA protocol to investigate psychopathological aspects. Data was analysed using Network Analysis, estimating a Gaussian Graphical Models with a Bayesian approach.
We found that the task related to comfort estimation distance demonstrated a correlation with the visual scale of the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile (AASP). Additionally, a correlation was observed with the Eating Disorder scale of the SAFA protocol. The touch scale also was negatively correlated with Eating disorder symptoms but not with the comfort estimation task.
Our results demonstrate a relation between peripersonal space and eating disorder symptoms in healthy adolescents in line with previous findings in adults with eating disorders diagnosis. These findings suggest that socio-emotional difficulties may be possible precursors or reinforce for the development of an eating disorder symptoms.
个人空间（PS）被表示为个体周围的直接区域。个人空间的范围会因多种因素而变化，包括情绪状态、关系类型或精神病理学。依恋焦虑会影响个人空间的社会适应性，焦虑和恐惧与个人空间的扩大有关，这可能是一种自我保护机制。个人空间似乎与各种精神疾病如焦虑症有着复杂的联系，越来越多的证据表明社会适应不良可能预测或加剧饮食失调症状的表现。
58名健康青少年（38名女性，20名男性）进行了舒适距离估计任务以评估个人空间。使用青少年/成人感觉概况（AASP）来评估感觉概况，并使用SAFA方案来调查精神病理学方面。使用网络分析对数据进行分析，采用贝叶斯方法估计高斯图形模型。
我们发现与舒适估计距离相关的任务与青少年/成人感觉概况（AASP）的视觉量表存在相关性。此外，还观察到与SAFA方案的饮食失调量表存在相关性。触觉量表也与饮食失调症状呈负相关，但与舒适估计任务无关。
我们的结果表明，健康青少年的个人空间与饮食失调症状之间存在关联，这与先前对饮食失调诊断的成年人的研究结果一致。这些发现表明，社会情感困难可能是饮食失调症状发展的可能先兆或强化因素。
