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Vários fatores socioculturais, familiares e individuais já foram identificados e descritos na literatura como sendo preditores ou fatores de risco para o desenvolvimento de comportamento alimentar perturbado, sendo que este pode levar ao desenvolvimento de perturbações alimentares. Recentemente, a resiliência tem sido alvo de estudo em diversas populações, devido ao seu potencial efeito protetor. Assim, a presente investigação pretende verificar o potencial efeito mediador da resiliência entre o clima familiar, a pressão sociocultural percebida e os comentários negativos relativos ao peso e à alimentação e o comportamento alimentar perturbado de adolescentes e jovens adultos, e ainda explorar as diferenças nestas variáveis de acordo com o sexo e a faixa etária. Trata-se de um estudo não-experimental, transversal, correlacional e preditivo. Participaram neste estudo 342 participantes com idades compreendidas entre os 12 e os 24 anos (M= 19,35; DP= 4,24), que responderam a um conjunto de questionários de autorrelato sobre as variáveis em causa. Os resultados mostraram que a resiliência não serviu de mediadora entre nenhuma das variáveis apresentadas e o comportamento alimentar perturbado. A resiliência e o clima familiar apresentaram uma correlação forte e positiva. O clima familiar, a pressão sociocultural percebida (sobretudo dos meios de comunicação social) e os comentários negativos predizem o comportamento alimentar perturbado. As raparigas e os jovens adultos apresentam níveis mais elevados de comportamento alimentar perturbado do que os rapazes e os adolescentes, respetivamente. Este estudo é inconsistente com a literatura existente relativamente ao papel da resiliência no âmbito do comportamento alimentar e vem também dar sugestões para futuras investigações e futuros programas de prevenção ou de intervenção neste mesmo contexto.
Several sociocultural, family, and individual factors have already been identified and described in the literature as predictors or risk factors for the development of disordered eating behavior, which can lead to eating disorders. Recently, resilience has been the subject of study in various populations, due to its potential protective effect. Thus, the present research aims to investigate the potential mediating effect of resilience between family climate, perceived sociocultural pressure, negative comments about weight and eating, and disordered eating behavior in adolescents and young adults, as well as explore differences in these variables according to gender and age group. This is a nonexperimental, cross-sectional, correlational, and predictive study. A total of 342 participants, aged between 12 and 24 years (M=19.35; SD=4.24), participated in this study, responding to a set of self-report questionnaires on the variables in question. The results showed that resilience did not serve as a mediator between any of the presented variables and disordered eating behavior. Resilience and family climate showed a strong positive correlation. Family climate, perceived sociocultural pressure (especially from the media), and negative comments predicted disordered eating behavior. Girls and young adults exhibited higher levels of disordered eating behavior than boys and adolescents, respectively. This study is inconsistent with the existing literature regarding the role of resilience in the context of eating behavior and also provides suggestions for future research and future prevention or intervention programs in this same context.
Several sociocultural, family, and individual factors have already been identified and described in the literature as predictors or risk factors for the development of disordered eating behavior, which can lead to eating disorders. Recently, resilience has been the subject of study in various populations, due to its potential protective effect. Thus, the present research aims to investigate the potential mediating effect of resilience between family climate, perceived sociocultural pressure, negative comments about weight and eating, and disordered eating behavior in adolescents and young adults, as well as explore differences in these variables according to gender and age group. This is a nonexperimental, cross-sectional, correlational, and predictive study. A total of 342 participants, aged between 12 and 24 years (M=19.35; SD=4.24), participated in this study, responding to a set of self-report questionnaires on the variables in question. The results showed that resilience did not serve as a mediator between any of the presented variables and disordered eating behavior. Resilience and family climate showed a strong positive correlation. Family climate, perceived sociocultural pressure (especially from the media), and negative comments predicted disordered eating behavior. Girls and young adults exhibited higher levels of disordered eating behavior than boys and adolescents, respectively. This study is inconsistent with the existing literature regarding the role of resilience in the context of eating behavior and also provides suggestions for future research and future prevention or intervention programs in this same context.
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Comportamento alimentar perturbado Resiliência Clima familiar Pressão sociocultural percebida Comentários negativos relativos ao peso e à alimentação Adolescentes Jovens adultos Disordered eating behavior Resilience Family climate Perceived sociocultural pressure Negative comments about weight and eating Adolescents Young adults