在饮食障碍识别中的性别刻板印象.
Margaret Sala1, Sofia Coll2, Rachel Flamer2
1Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, 1165 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY, USA. margarita.sala@yu.edu.
Eating and weight disorders : EWD
|July 2, 2024
概括
性别没有显著影响饮食障碍 (ED) 症状的识别或对治疗的感知需求. 然而,参与者认为,与男性相比,女性和非二进制个体的精神性厌食症 (AN) 和精神性嗜食症 (BN) 的患病率更高.
科学领域:
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 性别研究是性别研究.
背景情况:
- 对饮食障碍 (ED) 的认识较低,需要对影响知觉和识别的因素进行研究.
- 了解性别认同如何影响ED症状的感知对于有效的公共卫生干预至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查性别是否影响识别饮食障碍症状.
- 根据性别来评估 ED 治疗需要,痛苦,接受度和患病率的差异.
- 检查维涅特性别 (女性,男性,非二进制) 如何影响这些感知.
主要方法:
- 一项随机的实验研究,涉及276名社区参与者.
- 参与者被分配观看描述有神经性厌食症 (AN),神经性嗜食症 (BN) 或过度饮食障碍 (BED) 的个体的视频,呈现为女性,男性或非二进制.
- 结果措施包括症状识别,感知治疗需要,痛苦,可接受性和患病率,使用混合ANOVA和千平方测试进行分析.
主要成果:
- 没有发现性别状况对症状识别,感知治疗需要,痛苦或接受度有重大主要影响.
- 观察到ED类型的显著主要效应,AN和BN比BED更容易被识别.
- 一个显著的相互作用显示,与男性相比,女性和非二进制个体的AN感知患病率更高,女性的BN感知患病率比非二进制个体和男性高.
结论:
- 虽然性别并没有广泛影响ED症状的感知,但具体的相互作用表明了对患病率的细微看法.
- 调查结果强调需要广泛的教育,以提高人们对EDs影响所有性别认同的个体的认识.
- 公共卫生倡议应强调ED的普遍性,不论性别.
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