The Relationship Between Diet Status And Emotion Of General Dieters In College Students:Mediating Role Of Self-evaluation

Under the influence of "thin is beautiful",some of China's young people,especially women,have taken measures to lose weight.However,most dieters did not slim down,and extreme dieters suffered from eating disorders.The current research on dieters always focus on extreme dieters,not much research on general dieters.General dieters refer to those who occasionally have overeating.Research shows that the general dieters mostly low self-esteem,self evaluation and emotional distress.According to the existing research on the definition of the dieting status,this study will be defined as the actual dieting behavior,cognitive and behavioral tendency of three aspects,through convenient sampling,after excluding the extreme eating disorder tendency of dieters,students in Yunnan general dieters dieting status were investigated,and to further explore the subjects on cognitive and behavioral tendencies of the self evaluation and emotional mechanism.Study 1,a total of 318 college students were investigated with Dieting Status Measure,Eating Disorder Inventory,by a sophomore and junior college in Yunnan Province,including 237 girls and 81 boys.The survey showed that 1.65% of the disorder intrusions were lower than the prevalence rates in other regions;the dietary status of girls was more severe than that of boys;the overall dieting situation was similar to that of other regions.In study 2,391 college students were surveyed by Eating Disorder Inventory,Core Self-Evaluations Scale,Profile Of Mood State,including 309 girls and 82 boys.To investigate the mechanism of cognitive and behavioral tendency of dieting to influence emotions through self-evaluation.The results showed that dietary cognition and behavioral tendencies in all dimensions,Body Dissatisfaction,Maturity Fears can be self-evaluation through the negative impact of emotions,which self-evaluation play a fully mediated role;Ineffectiveness and Interoceptive Awareness can be self-evaluation negative impact the emotions,but also a direct impact on emotions,play a part of the intermediary role.To sum up,the main draw the following conclusions:(1)In Yunnan area,the actual dieter proportion of girls is much higher than that of boys,and boys groups also have a dieter.The difference between the actual weight and the expected weight,the proportion of the actual behavior of the diet,the score of the cognitive-behavioral dimensions of the diet is similar to that of the other regions,and the proportion of eating disorders is lower than that of other regions;(2)General dieters' dietary cognition and behavioral tendencies through self-evaluation affect the emotional intermediary mechanism is more complex.Diet cognition-behavioral discontent in the Body Dissatisfaction and Maturity Fears through the core self-evaluation of the negative impact of emotions,self-evaluation play a full mediating role,dieters can adjust self-evaluation to control their own emotional level;Ineffectiveness and Interoceptive Awareness can affect the emotions directly through the self-evaluation,but also directly affect the emotions,play a part of the intermediary role,the regulation of emotional way is more complex,both through the self-evaluation of the intermediary role to adjust the mood,But also can directly change the diet cognition-behavioral tendencies to regulate emotions.