Abstract
Nowadays, the topic of eating behavior is becoming more and more popular. People with deviant forms of eating are described as mysterious “THEY” who deceive a lot in order to hide the true form of eating and deep feelings about this, are tyrants in their families, strive for perfection and are extremely difficult to treat. This paper focuses on the attitudes of patients with eating disorders and their habitual strategies for coping with stress behavior. The study is based on the question: are there differences in self-attitudes and coping strategies among adolescents with different eating behaviors?
Highlights
Disorder of the eating behaviour is a group of disorders characterized by anxiety and pathological belief in the presence of a significant physical disability, sometimes of a hypochondriacal nature, which the patient seeks to compensate through manipulation of his body, with particular attention to the issues of nutrition and calorie expenditure.Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a conscious refusal to eat in order to correct, even at the cost of one's own life, one's "vice", which is often false
Girls with anorexia nervosa are more likely to respond with excessive self-criticism in difficult situations than girls in the other group. This is probably due to the fact that girls with anorexia use excessive self-accusation as punishment, with which they justify inadequate food restriction
The revealed differences indicate that the parameters of self-attitude are more favorable in the group of adolescents with a harmonious type of eating behavior. This is probably due to the fact that girls with a hyperphagic type of eating behavior, due to bouts of overeating and the inability to cope with negative emotions in a different way, feel their inferiority, which is aggravated by the inability to positively interact with the environment due to fear of evaluation
Summary
Disorder of the eating behaviour is a group of disorders characterized by anxiety and pathological belief in the presence of a significant physical disability, sometimes of a hypochondriacal nature, which the patient seeks to compensate through manipulation of his body, with particular attention to the issues of nutrition and calorie expenditure.Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a conscious refusal to eat in order to correct, even at the cost of one's own life, one's "vice", which is often false. In the group of girls with harmonious eating behavior, the strategies of planning problem solving and self-control are most pronounced, while the acceptance of responsibility is expressed to the least degree. In the course of processing the research results, we carried out a comparative analysis of coping strategies and self-esteem features in groups of adolescents with different eating behaviors using the Mann-Whitney U-criterion.
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