ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2023
Longitudinal association between self-compassion and intuitive eating: Testing emotion regulation and body image flexibility as mediating variables.
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- Ambivalence towards food, healthy eating and the role of self-compassion.British journal of health psychology · 2025Article
- Intuitive Eating Intervention in Physically Active Adults: Effects on Anthropometry, Athletic Performance, Eating Attitudes, and Body Image.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Body image flexibility and embodiment in eating disorders: a mixed-methods approach combining network analysis and pilot exposure protocol.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Self-compassion, body appreciation, and eating disorder symptoms among young adults with weight loss goals: a diary study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- Validation of the Chinese Version of the Body Image Flexibility and Inflexibility Scale among Chinese College Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Pathways by Which Self-Compassion Improves Positive Body Image: A Qualitative Analysis.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Longitudinal association between self-compassion and intuitive eating: Testing emotion regulation and body image flexibility as mediating variables.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesGrowing evidence suggests that intuitive eating is associated with numerous positive mental health and well-being constructs. Understanding factors that predict intuitive eating is necessary for identifying practical targets to enhance this style of eating, yet research identifying such predictors is scarce. Self-compassion is one variable that could enhance intuitive eating because it involves the practice of healthy emotion regulation skills that may disrupt the tendency to turn to food to cope during distressing situations. The present study tested for a longitudinal association between self-compassion and intuitive eating. We also tested whether this association was mediated by indices of emotion regulation (i.e., global emotion regulation skill scores and body image flexibility).
methodAdult women (n = 3039) were invited to completed study measures at baseline (T1), 4-month follow-up (T2), and 8-month follow-up (T3). Path analyses were computed to test hypothesized indirect effects.
resultsA direct path from T1 self-compassion to T3 intuitive eating emerged, such that higher self-compassion levels predicted increased intuitive eating over time. However, this association was not mediated by T2 emotion regulation skills nor body image flexibility.
conclusionFindings suggest that self-compassion may facilitate an intuitive eating style, which does not appear to be explained by certain emotion regulation skills.
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