Predicting emotional awareness from parental bonding
The results are presented in Table 4 and Fig. 2.
Maternal overprotection significantly and negatively predicted
emotional awareness (especially of oneself) in obese patients,
which accounted for 4% of the explained variance. Specifically, high
maternal overprotection predicted less emotional awareness in obese
patients. This finding was especially true along the ‘‘maternal
denial of psychological autonomy’’ dimension, which explained
the level of emotional awareness for oneself in obese patients
and accounted for 4% of the explained variance. A greater denial
of psychological autonomy predicted less emotional awareness
for oneself.
There was also a significant negative relationship between
paternal overprotection and the global LEAS score that accounted
for 6% of the explained variance. Moreover, there was a negative
relationship between paternal overprotection and the LEAS self
and LEAS other scores that accounted for 6% and 4% of the explained
variance, respectively. High paternal overprotection predicted
less emotional awareness in obese patients. This finding was especially true along the ‘‘paternal encouragement of behavioral
freedom’’ dimension, which explained the global level of emotional
awareness score, the LEAS self score and the LEAS other
score by accounting for 9%, 6% and 7% of the explained variance
in obese patients, respectively. Because the ‘‘encouragement of
behavioral freedom’’ dimension was reverse scored, the results
mean that less paternal encouragement of behavioral freedom predicted
less emotional awareness for oneself and others.