title: Exploring self-compassion as a refuge against recalling the body-related shaming of caregiver eating messages on dimensions of objectified body consciousness in college women.
abstract: Guided by an overarching body-related shame regulation framework, the present investigation examined the associations between caregiver eating messages and dimensions of objectified body consciousness and further explored whether self-compassion moderated these links in a sample of 322 U.S. college women. Correlational findings indicated that retrospective accounts of restrictive/critical caregiver eating messages were positively related to body shame and negatively related to self-compassion and appearance control beliefs. Recollections of experiencing pressure to eat from caregivers were positively correlated with body shame and inversely associated with appearance control beliefs. Higher self-compassion was associated with lower body shame and body surveillance. Self-compassion attenuated the associations between restrictive/critical caregiver eating messages and both body surveillance and body shame. Implications for advancing our understanding of the adaptive properties of a self-compassionate self-regulatory style in mitigating recall of familial body-related shaming on the internalized body-related shame regulating processes of body objectification in emerging adulthood are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States.
authors.forename: Chesnee A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Daye
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States. Electronic address: jennifer.webb@uncc.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Webb
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States.
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jafari
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image / Q000523:psychology*; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003243:Consciousness; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004645:Empathy; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D012649:Self Concept; D012752:Shame; D015144:Southeastern United States; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Appearance control beliefs; Body shame; Body surveillance; Caregiver eating messages; College women; Self-compassion