A Qualitative Exploration of Self-Kindness and "Treating Oneself" in Contexts of Eating, Weight Regulation and Other Health Behaviors: Implications for Mindfulness-Based Eating Programs
A Qualitative Exploration of Self-Kindness and "Treating Oneself" in Contexts of Eating, Weight Regulation and Other Health Behaviors: Implications for Mindfulness-Based Eating Programs
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00880
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发表时间：
2018-05-30
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Mantzios, Michail
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作者：
Egan, Helen;Mantzios, Michail
工作背景：通过正念和同情来改善或增强健康行为，特别是饮食行为，已经成为科学研究的前沿。本研究以一个社区为样本，探讨了人们对自我仁慈的理解及其与饮食行为和身心健康之间的关系，并对自我仁慈与饮食行为之间的关系进行了研究。数据收集使用个人半结构化访谈。样本是英格兰西米德兰兹郡更广泛社区的25名成员。使用Braun和Clarke（2006）的程序步骤进行分析的数据进行了专题analysis.Results：两个首要的主题归纳制定：“思考吃”和“关心身体和心灵”。构建了五个主题：（a）对待食物是特殊的饮食，（B）布丁的证明是在计划中，（c）节食是一个肮脏的词，这是归入思考吃，和（d）自我善良是一个否定的抽象名词，和（e）自我善良：玫瑰任何其他名称;在照顾身心。参与者描述了一些用食物和其他活动对待自己的方法，并从饮食的社会方面而不是食物方面讨论了饮食的乐趣。关于饮食和健康行为的叙述中有两个明显的矛盾。参与者在很大程度上回避节食的概念，但描述了高度调节和克制的饮食。有一个缺乏连接的概念，自我善良，虽然积极的饮食和锻炼健康的行为进行，他们被描述为必要的自我调节，而不是解释为acts of self-kinds.Conclusion：结果表明，缺乏轻松的解释，善待自己作为一种手段，改善心理健康，并无法将自我善良的身体健康行为。自我仁慈与自我放纵的关联，以及所描述的饥饿，饱腹感和饮食乐趣之间的脱节，对解释正念饮食量表，实践和干预措施具有影响。
Background: Caring for oneself through mindfulness and compassion to improve or enhance health behaviors, and specifically eating behaviors has come to the forefront of scientific inquiry. The experiences and challenges for people in decision making around food within the context of self-kindness for body and mind care have not been previously explored.Aims: This study explored the experiences of eating behaviors in a community sample and examined the understanding of self-kindness and its relationship to eating behaviors and wellbeing of body and mind.Methods: A phenomenological theoretical position was taken; data were collected using individual semi-structured interviews. The sample was twenty-five members of the wider community in the West Midlands in England. The data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke's (2006) procedural steps for thematic analysis.Results: Two overarching themes were inductively formulated: 'Thinking about eating' and 'Caring for body and mind'. Five themes were constructed: (a) Treat food is exceptional eating, (b) The proof of the pudding is in the planning, (c) Dieting is a dirty word, which are subsumed under Thinking about eating, and (d) Self-kindness is a disavowed abstract noun, and (e) Self-kindness: A rose by any other name; under Caring for body and mind. Participants described a number of ways of treating themselves both with food and with other activities and pleasure in eating was discussed in terms of social aspects of eating rather than food. Two clear contradictions within narratives around eating and health behaviors were shown. Participants largely eschewed the concept of dieting, but described engaging in highly regulated and restrained eating. There was a lack of connection with the notion of self-kindness; although positive eating and exercise health behaviors were undertaken, they were described as necessary self-regulation, not construed as acts of self-kindness.Conclusion: The results suggests a lack of ease in the interpretation of being kind to oneself as a means of improving mental wellbeing, and an inability to relate self-kindness to physical health behaviors. The association of self-kindness with self-indulgence, and the described disconnect between hunger, satiety and pleasure in eating has implications for interpretation of mindful eating scales, practices and interventions.