Reactive / proactive coping and early maladap-tive schemas in dieting women
Journal Title: Neurodynamics. Журнал клинической психологии и психиатрии - Year 2019, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
The authors analyze the dysfunctional patterns of thinking presented in the form of early maladaptive schemas (EMS), as well as coping mechanisms for stress in young women who are dissatisfied with their own appearance and use various methods for weight correction. It is specified that the main focus of research in recent years in stress psy-chology is aimed at analyzing the reactive patterns of behavior that are actualized after the emergence of a stressful situation, while the role of proactive (preventive, anticipatory) coping, including the work on the psychology of corporeality, is given less influence. The aim of the work is to assess the severity and relationship of EMS and coping strategies pre-sented at the reactive and proactive levels in girls practicing different types of diets. In the study, 30 respondents found that most of them re-sorted to self-limiting eating behavior: reducing the amount of food eat-en, limiting calories consumed, excluding flour and confectionery from the diet. Leading EMS in the survey sample were "Unrelenting Stand-ards", "Abandonment", "Approval-Seeking", "Self-Sacrifice", and "Insuf-ficient Self-Control". Among the reactive models of coping behavior, avoidance of difficulties and a positive reassessment of stressful events prevail. Proactive coping behavior is presented within the limits of the "lower" norm, while drawing attention to the inadequate use of such methods of coping with potential life difficulties, such as strategic plan-ning and the search for instrumental support (accumulation of infor-mation resources). The analysis of correlation relationships showed that the restrictive type of nutrition is directly related to avoiding behavior. At the same time, confrontive coping have positive relationships with the EMS "Mistrust", "Alienation" and "Shame". Proactive overcoming has negative relationships with reactive copying "Distancing", "Escape-Avoidance" and schemas "Abandonment", "Incompetence", "Depend-ence" and "Subjugation". Thus, the study showed that young women practicing different types of diets for weight correction are characterized by a more frequent appeal to non-adaptive coping at a reactive level of coping with stress, inadequate use of proactive coping, and the presence of early maladaptive schemas such as poor self-control, the approval-seeking, self-sacrifice, unrelenting standards, abandonment.
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Anastasiia Kovtunenko, Alexander Erzin
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