In this study, we examined the effects of body-focused daily self-compassion and self-esteem expressive writing activities on women’s valuation of weight management goals, body appreciation, bulimic symptoms, and healthy and unhealthy eating behaviors. One-hundred twenty-six women, recruited from the community and a university participant pool (Mage = 29.3, SD = 13.6), were randomly allocated to one of the three writing conditions: body-focused self-compassion, body-focused self-esteem, or control. Women reflected on a moment within the past 24 hours that made them feel self-conscious about their bodies, eating, or exercise habits (self-compassion and self-esteem conditions) or on a particular situation or feeling that occurred in the past 24 hours (control condition) for 4–7 days. At post-treatment (24 hours after the intervention), women in the self-compassion group demonstrated decreased bulimic symptoms, while women in the self-esteem and control conditions did not. Furthermore, clinically significant changes in bulimic symptoms were associated with being in the self-compassion condition but not in the self-esteem or control conditions. Results suggest that body-focused writing interventions may be more effective in temporarily reducing eating disorder symptoms in women if they focus on harnessing self-compassion. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ’s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/03616843211013465

在这项研究中，我们研究了以身体为中心的日常自我同情和自尊表达活动对女性体重管理目标，身体欣赏，暴食症状以及健康和不健康饮食行为的评估的影响。从社区招募的一百二十六名女性和大学参与者库中（M年龄= 29.3，SD= 13.6），随机分配给以下三个写作条件之一：以身体为中心的自我同情心，以身体为中心的自尊心或控制力。妇女在过去24小时内的某个时刻进行反思，使自己对自己的身体，饮食或运动习惯（自我同情和自尊条件）感到自觉，或者对过去24小时内发生的特定情况或感觉保持清醒（控制条件）持续4-7天。在治疗后（干预后24小时），自我同情组的妇女表现出减轻的脓毒症症状，而自尊和对照条件下的妇女则没有。此外，脓毒症症状的临床显着变化与处于自我同情状态有关，而与自尊或控制状态无关。这篇文章的其他在线资料可在PWQ的网站上找到，网址为http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/03616843211013465