정서적 섭식과 외부단서적 섭식은 서로 구별되는 구성개념으로, 다른 심리적 기제에 의해 발생하는 것으로 간주된다. 본 연구에서는 다이어트 경험, 섭식귀인양식 및 심리도식이 정서적 섭식과 외부단서적 섭식에 미치는 영향이 다른지를 알아봄으로써 섭식문제의 기제를 이해하고자 하였다. 다이어트 경험은 무리한 다이어트와 다이어트의 빈도로 구분하고, 결함/수치심, 정서 억제, 엄격한 기준/과잉비판, 부족한 자기통제를 섭식문제와 관련된 초기 부적응 도식 변인으로 설정하였다. 250명의 여대생에게 설문지를 배부하여 그 중 216명의 자료를 분석에 포함하였다. 여대생들의 다이어트 경험을 조사하고 Young 심리도식 질문지, 섭식 귀인양식 척도 및 식이행동질문지를 실시하였다. 외부단서적 섭식을 통제했을 때 다이어트의 빈도, 과식에 대한 안정귀인, 정서 억제와 엄격한 기준 도식은 정서적 섭식을 유의하게 설명하였다. 반면에, 정서적 섭식을 통제했을 때 다이어트의 빈도 이외에, 귀인양식과 초기 부적응 도식은 외부단서적 섭식을 유의하게 설명하지 않았다. 이러한 결과는 정서적 섭식과 외부단서적 섭식의 기제가 다를 수 있음을 시사한다. 본 연구의 한계점과 더불어, 함의에 대한 논의가 이루어졌다.
Emotional and external eating distinctly constructs each other, and were considered as having different psychological mechanisms. This study aims to examine the influences of dietary behavior, eating attribution style, and early maladaptive schema for emotional and external eating. Dietary behaviors were classified as unhealthy diets and repeated dieting attempts. We selected four scales: defectiveness/shame, emotional inhibition, unrelenting standards, and insufficient self-control from early maladaptive schema. The authors distributed questionnaires to 250 female college students and 216 of them were included in the data analysis. They completed the Dutch Eating Behavior questionnaire (DEBQ), the Eating Attributional Style Questionnaire (EASQ), and the Young's Schema Questionnaire (YSQ). Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that repeated dieting attempts, stable attributions for indulgent food consumptions, emotional inhibitions, and unrelenting standards predicted emotional eating; and only repeated dieting attempts predicted external eating after controlling other patterns of eating. These results suggest that the mechanisms which underly emotional eating might differ from the ones that underly external eating. The limitations and implications of the present results were discussed.
Emotional and external eating distinctly constructs each other, and were considered as having different psychological mechanisms. This study aims to examine the influences of dietary behavior, eating attribution style, and early maladaptive schema for emotional and external eating. Dietary behaviors were classified as unhealthy diets and repeated dieting attempts. We selected four scales: defectiveness/shame, emotional inhibition, unrelenting standards, and insufficient self-control from early maladaptive schema. The authors distributed questionnaires to 250 female college students and 216 of them were included in the data analysis. They completed the Dutch Eating Behavior questionnaire (DEBQ), the Eating Attributional Style Questionnaire (EASQ), and the Young's Schema Questionnaire (YSQ). Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that repeated dieting attempts, stable attributions for indulgent food consumptions, emotional inhibitions, and unrelenting standards predicted emotional eating; and only repeated dieting attempts predicted external eating after controlling other patterns of eating. These results suggest that the mechanisms which underly emotional eating might differ from the ones that underly external eating. The limitations and implications of the present results were discussed.
