The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating Disorders
BackgroundDespite the growing literature about recovery from eating disorders (EDs), it is still unknown if women who report being recovered from EDs present with differing implicit attitudes about high-fat (vs. low-fat) food relative to women who report having a current ED and women who report neve...
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| description | BackgroundDespite the growing literature about recovery from eating disorders (EDs), it is still unknown if women who report being recovered from EDs present with differing implicit attitudes about high-fat (vs. low-fat) food relative to women who report having a current ED and women who report never having had an ED.MethodsFemale volunteers (N = 2,785) to the Project Implicit Mental Health (PIMH) website (https://implicit.harvard.edu/) were divided into three ED groups: current ED (n = 335), prior ED (n = 393), and healthy controls (n = 1,843). Participants completed, between 2016 and 2017, a background questionnaire, together with the Implicit Association Test (IAT), measuring implicit associations between high-fat (vs. low-fat) food and shame (vs. acceptableness). Linear regression models were conducted to examine cross-sectional differences between groups.ResultsWomen with prior EDs had stronger implicit associations relative to healthy controls (p = 0.041) and similar implicit associations relative to women with current EDs (p = 0.424).DiscussionThe implicit association between high-fat food and shame may not diminish over time among women with EDs. Future longitudinal studies are warranted to clarify whether an experience of EDs may leave a “scar,” manifested in specific implicit associations, that may potentially lead to recurrence after remission. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fbfe6e30a4944d7eb77a7f985e9e8ed12022-12-22T01:02:18ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782020-06-011110.3389/fpsyg.2020.01068538790The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating DisordersRoni Elran-Barak0Tzipi Dror1Andrea B. Goldschmidt2Bethany A. Teachman3 School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, IsraelThe School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IsraelDepartment of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, The Miriam Hospital, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, United StatesSchool of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United StatesBackgroundDespite the growing literature about recovery from eating disorders (EDs), it is still unknown if women who report being recovered from EDs present with differing implicit attitudes about high-fat (vs. low-fat) food relative to women who report having a current ED and women who report never having had an ED.MethodsFemale volunteers (N = 2,785) to the Project Implicit Mental Health (PIMH) website (https://implicit.harvard.edu/) were divided into three ED groups: current ED (n = 335), prior ED (n = 393), and healthy controls (n = 1,843). Participants completed, between 2016 and 2017, a background questionnaire, together with the Implicit Association Test (IAT), measuring implicit associations between high-fat (vs. low-fat) food and shame (vs. acceptableness). Linear regression models were conducted to examine cross-sectional differences between groups.ResultsWomen with prior EDs had stronger implicit associations relative to healthy controls (p = 0.041) and similar implicit associations relative to women with current EDs (p = 0.424).DiscussionThe implicit association between high-fat food and shame may not diminish over time among women with EDs. Future longitudinal studies are warranted to clarify whether an experience of EDs may leave a “scar,” manifested in specific implicit associations, that may potentially lead to recurrence after remission.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01068/fulleating disordersimplicit associationrecoveryEAT-26high-fat food |
| spellingShingle | Roni Elran-Barak Tzipi Dror Andrea B. Goldschmidt Bethany A. Teachman The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating Disorders Frontiers in Psychology eating disorders implicit association recovery EAT-26 high-fat food |
| title | The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating Disorders |
| title_full | The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating Disorders |
| title_fullStr | The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating Disorders |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating Disorders |
| title_short | The Implicit Association of High-Fat Food and Shame Among Women Recovered From Eating Disorders |
| title_sort | implicit association of high fat food and shame among women recovered from eating disorders |
| topic | eating disorders implicit association recovery EAT-26 high-fat food |
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