Promoting Self–Compassionate Attitudes Toward Eating Among Restrictive and Guilty Eaters

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Self-Compassion: An Alternative Conceptualization of a Healthy Attitude Toward Oneself

Kristin Neff (2003)

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Self-compassion and reactions to unpleasant self-relevant events: the implications of treating oneself kindly.

Mark Leary, Eleanor Tate, Claire E Adams … (2007)

Five studies investigated the cognitive and emotional processes by which self-compassionate people deal with unpleasant life events. In the various studies, participants reported on negative events in their daily lives, responded to hypothetical scenarios, reacted to interpersonal feedback, rated their or others' videotaped performances in an awkward situation, and reflected on negative personal experiences. Results from Study 1 showed that self-compassion predicted emotional and cognitive reactions to negative events in everyday life, and Study 2 found that self-compassion buffered people against negative self-feelings when imagining distressing social events. In Study 3, self-compassion moderated negative emotions after receiving ambivalent feedback, particularly for participants who were low in self-esteem. Study 4 found that low-self-compassionate people undervalued their videotaped performances relative to observers. Study 5 experimentally induced a self-compassionate perspective and found that self-compassion leads people to acknowledge their role in negative events without feeling overwhelmed with negative emotions. In general, these studies suggest that self-compassion attenuates people's reactions to negative events in ways that are distinct from and, in some cases, more beneficial than self-esteem. ((c) 2007 APA, all rights reserved).

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Binge eating as escape from self-awareness.

T F Heatherton, R F Baumeister (1991)

This article proposes that binge eating is motivated by a desire to escape from self-awareness. Binge eaters suffer from high standards and expectations, especially an acute sensitivity to the difficult (perceived) demands of others. When they fall short of these standards, they develop an aversive pattern of high self-awareness, characterized by unflattering views of self and concern over how they are perceived by others. These aversive self-perceptions are accompanied by emotional distress, which often includes anxiety and depression. To escape from this unpleasant state, binge eaters attempt the cognitive response of narrowing attention to the immediate stimulus environment and avoiding broadly meaningful thought. This narrowing of attention disengages normal inhibitions against eating and fosters an uncritical acceptance of irrational beliefs and thoughts. The escape model is capable of integrating much of the available evidence about binge eating.

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Title: Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

Abbreviated Title: Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology

Publisher: Guilford Publications

ISSN (Print): 0736-7236

Publication date Created: December 2007

Publication date (Print): December 2007

Volume: 26

Issue: 10

Pages: 1120-1144

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DOI: 10.1521/jscp.2007.26.10.1120

SO-VID: 41660972-2a43-42e7-b07a-de1ec7dab911

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