Estilos de alimentación y su asociación con apreciación corporal, internalización del sesgo del peso y autocompasión

Abstract

Background: The assessment of thinness and bias towards overweight people can promote body appreciation and maladaptive eating styles; self-compassion could act mitigating these relationships. Objective: To understand the association between body appreciation, weight bias internalization and eating styles (ES), as well as the role of a selfcompassionate attitude in body appreciation. Method: Correlational, cross-sectional study, with 837 adults living in Chile. In the data analysis, multiple regression and mediation analysis were used. Results: Body appreciation and internalization of weight bias predicted emotional ES (β = -.126; p <001 and β =.258; p