Alexitimia, Comportamentos Alimentares, Esquemas Emocionais e Sintomas Psicopatológicos em Adultos
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Abstract
Introdução: Os esquemas emocionais determinam o modo como cada um de nós reage perante determinadas adversidades no dia-a-dia. Por seu lado, a alexitimia enquanto dificuldade em expressar as emoções, pode influenciar a vida social e psicológica e, consequentemente, ter impacto no comportamento alimentar. Objetivos: 1) estudar a relação entre alexitimia, comportamento alimentar, sintomas psicopatológicos e esquemas emocionais; 2) analisar as diferenças nas variáveis em estudo em função da presença versus ausência de alexitimia; 3) estudar as associações entre a presença/ausência de alexitimia e algumas variáveis sociodemográficas (sexo, idade, habilitações literárias e peso). Metodologia: A amostra foi dividida em dois grupos, recorrendo-se ao ponto de corte da TAS- 20: grupo como presença de alexitimia, composto por 39 indivíduos, 14 do sexo masculino (35,9%) e 25 de sexo feminino (64,1%); e grupo como ausência de alexitimia, constituído por 71 indivíduos, 35 do sexo masculino (49,3%) e 36 do sexo feminino (50,7%). Os participantes preencheram um formulário online constituído por: Questionário Sociodemográfico; Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), Emotional Schema Scale de Leahy (LESS), Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) e Teste de Atitudes Alimentares (TAA-25). Resultados: Encontramos associações significativas positivas entre a presença de sintomatologia psicopatológica (BSI) e os comportamentos alimentares (TAA-25). No que toca a emoções, verificamos uma relação negativa entre crenças negativas e os comportamentos bulímicos, dieta e pressão social para comer. Relativamente à associação entre comportamentos alimentares e alexitimia, destacamos a associação positiva entre o comportamento bulímico e a dificuldade em identificar e descrever sentimentos e entre a pressão social para comer e a dificuldade em descrever sentimentos. Discussão e conclusão: Os resultados deste estudo evidenciaram como a alexitimia, os esquemas emocionais, os sintomas psicopatológicos e os comportamentos alimentares se relacionam entre si. Ficou ainda presente que os sujeitos com alexitimia demonstram a presença de mais comportamentos bulímicos e sentem maior pressão para comer comparativamente com os sujeitos sem alexitimia. Estes resultados devem ser tomados em consideração na área da saúde mental e quando se pensa na elaboração de programas de prevenção nesta área. / Introduction: All of us have different ways of reacting in the face of adversities in our day to day life. Alexithymia as a difficulty in expressing emotions, can actually affect social and psychological life and as a consequence, it can also have an impact in the eating behavior. Objetives: 1) study the relation between alexithymia, eating behavior, psychopathology and emotional schema; 2) analyze the diferences between variables in function of presence versus abscence of alexithymia; 3) study the associations between the presence/absence of alexithymia and some sociodemographic variables (age, gender, literacy, weight). Methodology: The total sample was divided in two groups, using the cut off point of the TAS- 20: group as a presence of alexithymia, composed of 39 individuals, 14 males (35,9%) and 25 females (64.1.%); and group as a absence of alexithymia, composed of 71 individuals, 35 males (49,35) and 36 females (50,7%). The participants answered an online google docs composed by: Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), Emotional Schema Scale de Leahy (LESS), Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) e Teste de Atitudes Alimentares (TAA-25). Results: Some significant and positive associations between the presence of psychopathological symptomatology (BSI) and eating behaviors (TAA-25) were found. Concerning emotions, it was verified a negative relationship between negative beliefs and bulimic behaviors, diet and social pressure to eat. Regarding the association between eating behaviors and alexithymia, we can highlight the positive association between bulimic behavior and difficulty in identifying and describing feelings and between social pressure to eat and the difficulty in describing feelings. Discussion and conclusion: The results of this study proved that alexithymia, emotional schemes, pathological symptoms and eating behaviors are related to each other. It was also proved that the subjects with alexithymia demonstrate the presence of bulimic behaviors and feel more pressure to eat compared with the subjects without alexithymia. This results should be taken into account in the area of mental health and when we think about the elaboration of prevention programs in this area.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".