Resilience, Time Perspective, and Leading Type of Eating Behavior in Women with Different Attitudes Toward Past Experiences

Introduction. The relevance of the study is due to the ambiguity and extreme eventfulness of the present time, as well as the lack of long-term planning. The personality faces the need to quickly adapt to new conditions, increase the level of resilience, and preserve mental and physical well-being. Eating behavior is an important component of maintaining personal health, and its various disorders reflect general failures in personality functioning. Thus, the study of the relationship between resilience, time perspective and eating behavior in women will help to expand the understanding of the possibilities of personality adaptation to changing environmental conditions.

Objective. To investigate the relationship of resilience, time perspective, and leading type of eating behavior in women with different attitudes toward past experiences.

Materials and Methods. The study uses "Resilience Test" by S. StrienMuddy, "Time Perspective Questionnaire" by F. Zimbardo, "Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire" by T. Van . Van Strien. Statistical analysis of the obtained data was carried out using the nonparametric Mann-Whitney U-criterion for comparison of two independent samples, as well as the  rank correlation coefficientr-Spearman.

Results. Women with low levels of negative past demonstrated higher values on the scales "involvement", "control", "risk taking", "future", and "positive past". Women with a high level of negative past demonstrated values higher on the scales "negative past", "hedonistic present", "fatalistic present", "emotiogenic", "externalizing", and "restrictive" eating behavior. Correlation analysis allowed us to identify two symptom complexes. The first shows that perceiving one's life as out of control is associated with decreased resilience in general. The second demonstrates that excessive eating in response to external stimuli is an indicator of a general perception of the uncontrollability of one's life and is built around the parameter "externalized eating behavior".

Discussion. It has been revealed that women with a high level of negative past are characterized by attitudes of belief in fate, getting pleasure in the present, they are less involved in professional activities and are not ready to take risks. Also the indicators of emotiogenic, externalizing and restrictive eating behavior in this group are significantly higher. With a low level of negative attitude to past experience, there is a greater resourcefulness in terms of resilience, confidence in the ability to manage the events of their lives and aspiration for the future.

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