Assessing the Relationship Between Drive for Thinness and Taste-Shape Correspondences
Assessing the Relationship Between Drive for Thinness and Taste-Shape Correspondences
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评估瘦身欲望与味形对应关系之间的关系
DOI：
10.1163/22134808-bja10030
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1.6
通讯作者：
Motoaki Sugiura
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作者：
Yumi Hamamoto;Kosuke Motoki;Motoaki Sugiura
饮食失调倾向是在健康年轻女性中普遍存在的心理特征，并且已知是厌食症和神经性贪食症等饮食失调的风险因素之一。有严重饮食失调倾向的人强烈地将甜食和高脂肪食物与体重增加联系起来，并严格避免食用此类食物。然而，人们对饮食失调倾向如何影响味觉和体形印象之间的联系知之甚少。对跨模态对应的研究表明，人们更倾向于将甜味与圆形联系起来，个体差异会影响这种联系的程度。本研究探讨了口味形状匹配程度与饮食失调倾向的关系，并初步探讨了是什么介导了这种关系。进行了两个实验：在实验1中，健康参与者评定基本味觉词（甜/酸/咸/苦）与形状圆度之间的关联程度，随后完成解决饮食失调倾向的问卷。在实验2中，参与者回答了额外的问卷调查，涉及强迫症，二分法思维和自尊。实验1的结果表明，作为饮食紊乱倾向的指标之一的瘦的欲望与甜味与圆形的匹配程度之间存在正相关。实验2重复了实验1的结果，揭示了强迫的中介作用。这些发现表明，个体差异之间的关系，口味形状匹配和饮食失调的倾向和初步的中介作用的强迫症。本研究提供了新的见解甜圆匹配的作用，饮食失调的倾向和相关的心理机制。
Eating disorder tendencies are psychological characteristics that are prevalent in healthy young females and are known to be among the risk factors for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia nervosa. People with greater eating disorder tendencies strongly associate sweet and fatty foods with weight gain and strictly avoid consuming such foods. However, little is known about how eating disorder tendencies influence the association between taste and body shape impression. Research on crossmodal correspondences suggests that people preferentially associate sweet tastes with round shapes, and individual differences affect the degree of such associations. This study investigates how the degree of taste–shape matching is related to eating disorder tendencies with a preliminary investigation of what mediates this relationship. Two experiments were conducted: in Experiment 1, healthy participants rated the degree of association between basic taste words (sweet/sour/salty/bitter) and roundness of shape and subsequently completed questionnaires addressing eating disorder tendencies. In Experiment 2, participants answered additional questionnaires addressing obsessiveness, dichotomous thinking, and self-esteem. The results of Experiment 1 indicated a positive correlation between drive for thinness, which is one indicator of an eating disorder tendency, and the degree of matching sweetness to round shape. Experiment 2 replicated the results of Experiment 1 and revealed the mediating effect of obsessiveness. These findings suggest a relationship between individual differences in taste–shape matching and eating disorder tendency and the preliminary mediating role of obsessiveness. The present study provides new insight into the role of sweet–round matching in eating disorder tendencies and the associated psychological mechanisms.