LIFE ORIENTATION AND PREFERENCES OF META VALUES IN WOMEN WITH ANOREXIA AND BULIMIA NERVOSA

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https://doi.org/10.24919/2313-2094.4/36.98541

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sense of coherence, meta values, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, women

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According to Antonovsky, the sense of coherence (SOC) plays the foremost role in the group of health conditioning factors. A strong sense of coherence consists of three intercorrelated dimensions: the sense of comprehensibility, the sense of manageability and the sense of meaningfulness. The value concept by Schwartz, which dominates in contemporary psychology, views them as emotion related beliefs concerning the desired objectives (going beyond specific activities and situations), at the same time constituting the criterion of one’s own and others’ behaviours. The Author proposes 10 types of universal basis values and 4 meta types structured by two dimensions, namely self-transcendence versus self-enhancement and openness to change versus conservation. The knowledge of preferences referring to the basic values and meta values can help to better understand an individual’s attitudes and behaviours, both in health and in illness.

The study comprised 40 women with diagnosed anorexia nervosa and 40 women with diagnosed bulimia nervosa, according to the research criteria ICD-10. The studies made use of the Portrait Value Questionnaire (PVQ-R2) by Schwartz and the Life Orientation Questionnaire (SOC-29) by Antonovsky.

The purpose of the studies was to search for the relations between life orientation and preferences of meta values in women with eating disorders. The form of eating disorders was adopted as the differentiating criterion. The present studies pointed to statistically significant differences in life orientation of preferences of meta values in women with eating disorders as well as in the structure of relations between them. The form of eating disorders was adopted as the differentiating criterion. Anorectic women – as compared with bulimic women – have greater resistance mechanisms and adaptive possibilities. They perceive the accessible external and internal resources as sufficient to cope with any problems and requirements directed at them from the environment. Women with anorexia differed from women with bulimia considerably in the sphere of preferences of the meta values of self-transcendence and the opposite meta value of self-transcendence, which in bulimic women is related to the values directed at common good, both in group and social dimensions. The analyses partly confirmed the adopted hypotheses concerning the occurrence of relations between the sense of coherence and its dimensions on the one hand and preferences of meta values in anorectic and bulimic women on the other.

Determination of life orientation and preferences of meta values in women with eating disorders as well as the structure of relations between them seems especially important from the point of view of the undertaken preventive actions as well as from the point of view of planning and using different methods and forms of therapy.

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Anna Wiatrowska, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin.

Doctor, junior scientific assistant, Department of Pedeutology and Health Education, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland.

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2017-04-11

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