Examining associations among sensitivity to punishment and reward, shame, and eating pathology through tests of mediation

Brockdorf, Alexandra N.; Kennedy, Grace A.; Keel, Pamela K.

doi:10.1080/10640266.2017.1408293

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“…Across the measures of cognitive bias, the explicit measure of shame‐oriented biases demonstrated significant differences between groups and significant associations with food intake—associations that exceeded those observed for negative affect. Findings support prior work implicating shame as an especially relevant emotion for individuals with eating pathology (Brockdorf et al, 2017). Future studies could test mechanisms, such as specific kinds of negative affect or stressors (e.g., social anxiety and social stress), through which shame‐focused interpretations of interpersonal stressors may yield pathological overeating.…”

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“…Building on self‐discrepancy theory, integrative cognitive affective therapy posits that binge eating is a response to negative affect triggered by tendencies toward self‐blame (vs. self‐affirmation; Wonderlich et al, 2015). In both theories, negative cognitions include negative interpretations of self‐relevant stimuli, which can lead to emotions such as shame that tend to be prominent in eating disorders (Brockdorf et al, 2017). These models may also apply to emotional eating and support examining negative interpretation biases in emotional eating at both explicit and implicit levels given that some of these biases may occur outside of conscious awareness (Heatherton & Baumeister, 1991; Wonderlich et al, 2015).…”

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Evaluating the role of negative affect and negative interpretation biases in emotional eating behavior

Klein

Fitzgerald

Forney

et al. 2022

Intl J Eating Disorders

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Objective: The study of emotional eating, or (over)eating in response to emotions, may inform transdiagnostic interventions for eating pathology. Prior work has focused on the role of negative affect in promoting emotional eating. The present study sought to extend this work through examining the role of cognitive biases.Method: Women who self-reported (n = 50) and did not self-report (n = 40) emotional eating completed self-report questionnaires of negative affect and negative interpretation biases, an implicit measure of cognitive bias, and a behavioral assay of emotional eating involving an ad lib test meal following a stress induction task. Results:The emotional eating group endorsed elevated trait negative affect, explicit shame biases, and implicit negative biases compared to controls. In addition, state negative affect increased after the stress induction task, and the emotional eating group endorsed greater state negative affect before and after the task and consumed more food following the stress induction. Only explicit cognitive shame biases demonstrated significant indirect effects in the association between group and food consumption. Specifically, elevated explicit shame biases were positively associated with amount of food consumed for the emotional eating group.Discussion: Future research should examine whether interventions that target cognitive biases related to shame reduce emotional eating.Public Significance: Individuals with emotional eating consumed more food than controls following a stress induction. Explicit shame cognitive biases were positively associated with amount of food consumed for the emotional eating group. Shame cogntiive biases may be fruitful targets for reducing emotional eating.

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confidence: 86%

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confidence: 99%

Evaluating the role of negative affect and negative interpretation biases in emotional eating behavior

Klein

Fitzgerald

Forney

et al. 2022

Intl J Eating Disorders

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“…Within the body image domain, body shame has been found to be associated with bulimic symptoms in both clinical and non-clinical samples [ 19 – 22 ]. One explanation for the association between body shame and bulimic symptomatology is the escape theory of binge eating [ 6 , 23 ].…”

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Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency

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Purpose This study set out to disentangle the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency on bulimic symptomatology in a sample of college women. We predicted that body shame would mediate the relationship between body size and bulimic symptomatology: with increasing body size, the greater would be the experience of body shame and, in turn, the greater the bulimic symptomatology. We also predicted that negative urgency would exacerbate this mediation pathway, and that the moderated mediation model would occur over and above current levels of depression. Method A convenience sample of 237 college women indicated their age, height and weight and then completed measures of body shame, negative urgency, depression and bulimic symptomatology. Bootstrap analysis was used to test the predicted moderation mediation model. Results The bootstrap analysis supported all predictions. Thus, with greater the increase in body size, the greater was the body shame and the more frequent bulimic symptomatology. Furthermore, negative urgency moderated the relationship between body shame and bulimic symptomatology, such that those with both higher negative urgency and body shame had more frequent bulimic symptomatology. Conclusions Results suggest that those college women higher in both BMI and negative urgency are likely to experience higher levels of bulimic symptoms. These women may benefit from emotion regulation interventions targeted at preventing, as well as coping effectively with, the experience of body shame. Level of evidence V: cross-sectional descriptive study.

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“…Inspired by the serial pathway indicated in ECM (Selby et al, 2008), this study intended to see if shame, which is a common negative emotion in individuals with high SP, would be able to activate rumination, and subsequently emotional eating as a dysfunctional behaviour. It should be also noted that although Brockdorf et al (2018) studied the mediating role of shame in the relationship of SP and eating attitudes, the present study aimed to add extra information to the literature by examining this pathway regarding emotional eating and investigating the role of rumination as another mediator.…”

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“…Based on the related literature, BIS, as a temperament construct, is associated with shame (Brockdorf et al, 2018) through affecting the response intensity to self‐conscious emotions such as shame (Mills, 2005). In other words, highly activated BIS is likely to elevate negative emotional responses such as generalized shame and worthlessness in one's entire being (Brockdorf et al, 2020).…”

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Sensitivity to punishment and emotional eating: The mediating role of shame and rumination

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Objectives:The relationship between sensitivity to punishment (SP) and emotional eating has been previously examined. However, effective variables in this relationship have yet to be recognized. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between SP and emotional eating via facets of shame and rumination. Design: Serial Mediation model was proposed. Method: Female university students in Iran (n = 174) completed Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire-Revised and Clarified (SPSRQ-RC), Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (DEBQ), Experience of Shame Scale (ESS) and Ruminative Responses Scale (RRS).Results: SP showed a significant effect on emotional eating. Moreover, we observed that the relationship between SP and emotional eating was separately mediated by shame (general, characterological and bodily shame) and rumination. We further noticed the sequentially mediating role of shame (general, characterological and behavioural shame) and rumination in the relationship between SP and emotional eating. Conclusion: Findings suggest that high SP can increase the risk of emotional eating through negative emotions (e.g. shame) and disturbed cognitions (e.g. rumination).

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Examining associations among sensitivity to punishment and reward, shame, and eating pathology through tests of mediation

Cited by 7 publications

References 30 publications

Evaluating the role of negative affect and negative interpretation biases in emotional eating behavior

Evaluating the role of negative affect and negative interpretation biases in emotional eating behavior

Bulimic symptoms in a sample of college women: disentangling the roles of body size, body shame and negative urgency

Sensitivity to punishment and emotional eating: The mediating role of shame and rumination

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