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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 ofanxiety (n = 19), and three female normal control groups comprising low (n = 31), moderate (n = 21), o...

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Autores principales: Shafran, Roz, Lee, Michelle, Cooper, Zafra, Palmer, Robert L, Fairburn, Christopher G
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2798076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17330290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/eat.20375
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Sumario: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 ofanxiety (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. © 2007 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 2007