Attentional bias in eating disorders.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between eating disorders and attentional biases. METHOD: The first study comprised 23 female patients with clinical eating disorders, women with high levels of anxiety (n = 19), and three female normal control groups comprising low (n = 31), moderate (n = 21),...
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| author | Shafran, R Lee, M Cooper, Z Palmer, R Fairburn, C |
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| description | OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between eating disorders and attentional biases. METHOD: The first study comprised 23 female patients with clinical eating disorders, women with high levels of anxiety (n = 19), and three female normal control groups comprising low (n = 31), moderate (n = 21), or high levels of shape concern (n = 23). The second study comprised 82 women with clinical eating disorders and 44 healthy controls. All participants completed measures of eating disorder psychopathology and completed a modified pictorial dot-probe task. RESULTS: In the first study, biases were found for negative eating and neutral weight pictures, and for positive eating pictures in women with eating disorders; these biases were greater than those found in anxious and normal controls. The second study replicated these findings and biases were also found for negative and neutral shape stimuli. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that future research should establish whether such biases warrant specific therapeutic interventions. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:b3ee5d71-833c-481f-a789-f56a1891c4652022-03-27T04:22:33ZAttentional bias in eating disorders.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:b3ee5d71-833c-481f-a789-f56a1891c465EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2007Shafran, RLee, MCooper, ZPalmer, RFairburn, COBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between eating disorders and attentional biases. METHOD: The first study comprised 23 female patients with clinical eating disorders, women with high levels of anxiety (n = 19), and three female normal control groups comprising low (n = 31), moderate (n = 21), or high levels of shape concern (n = 23). The second study comprised 82 women with clinical eating disorders and 44 healthy controls. All participants completed measures of eating disorder psychopathology and completed a modified pictorial dot-probe task. RESULTS: In the first study, biases were found for negative eating and neutral weight pictures, and for positive eating pictures in women with eating disorders; these biases were greater than those found in anxious and normal controls. The second study replicated these findings and biases were also found for negative and neutral shape stimuli. CONCLUSION: It is concluded that future research should establish whether such biases warrant specific therapeutic interventions. |
| spellingShingle | Shafran, R Lee, M Cooper, Z Palmer, R Fairburn, C Attentional bias in eating disorders. |
| title | Attentional bias in eating disorders. |
| title_full | Attentional bias in eating disorders. |
| title_fullStr | Attentional bias in eating disorders. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Attentional bias in eating disorders. |
| title_short | Attentional bias in eating disorders. |
| title_sort | attentional bias in eating disorders |
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