Selective processing of shape‐related words in women with eating disorders, and those who have recovered

Lovell, Deborah M.; Williams, Jane; Hill, Andrew

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8260.1997.tb01249.x

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“…Prospective studies have found overconcern with weight and shape to be predictive of problematic eating behavior (Button, Sonuga-Barke, Davies, & Thompson, 1996;Graber, Brooks-Gunn, Paikoff, & Warren, 1994;Killen et al, 1994Killen et al, , 1996; experimental studies have demonstrated that eating disorder patients selectively attend to weight and shape-related information (Ben-Tovim & Walker, 1991;Ben-Tovim, Walker, Fok, & Yap, 1989;Channon, Hemsley, 4 & de Silva, 1988;Cooper, Anastasiades, & Fairburn, 1992;Cooper & Fairburn, 1992;Fairburn, Cooper, Cooper, McKenna, & Anastasiades, 1991;Green, Elliman, Rogers, & Welch, 1997;Lovell & Williams, 1997;Schotte, McNally, & Turner, 1990); and treatment trials using``dismantling'' techniques have found that removing the procedures designed to produce cognitive change from CBT has resulted in patients being markedly prone to relapse (Fairburn, Peveler, Jones, Hope & Doll, 1993).…”

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The cognitive‐behavioral model of bulimia nervosa: A direct evaluation

Byrne

McLean

2001

Intl J Eating Disorders

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The cognitive‐behavioral model of bulimia nervosa: A direct evaluation

Byrne

McLean

2001

Intl J Eating Disorders

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“…Green, Wakeling, Elliman, & Rogers, 1998) and bulimic (e.g. Lovell, Williams & Hill, 1997) women. This bias or selective processing is manifest through slower colour-naming of disorder-relevant compared to neutral information and when compared to non-eating-disordered women.…”

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Processing of five types of ‘threat’ information in anorexic and bulimic women

Quinton¹

2004

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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This study investigated further the 'escape' hypothesis of bulimia and compared the processing of 'threat' information in control, anorexic and bulimic women. Using a novel informationprocessing task, five types of non-eating 'threat' (autonomy, sociotropy, discomfort anxiety, ego threat from others and ego threat from self) were addressed. The women did not differ in response time taken to identify 'threat' information, although there was support for the 'escape' hypothesis of bulimia. Specific non-eating 'threat' information appeared relevant to both anorexia and bulimia nervosa, suggesting the potential value of addressing general threat schemata in clinical practice.

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“…In other studies, both clinical and non-clinical samples with body image disturbances devote more attention to threatening body-related information than controls do (e.g., Cooper and Todd 1997;Davidson and Wright 2002;Fairburn et al 1991;Green et al 1994;Jones-Chesters et al 1998;Lovell et al 1997).…”

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Attentional and Memory Biases Among Weight Dissatisfied Young Women: Evidence from a Dichotic Listening Paradigm

Jackson

Chen

2010

Cogn Ther Res

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This study investigated attentional and memory biases within the auditory domain among emerging adult women with high levels of fatness and weight concern. A sample of 116 Chinese undergraduate women screened into groups high and low in self-reported weight dissatisfaction engaged in a dichotic listening task. Participants were instructed to shadow (repeat aloud) neutral passages in the attended ear and respond to visual probes, while ignoring distractors (fat, thin, or neutral words) in the unattended ear. Results indicated that weight dissatisfied women made more shadowing errors in the presence of both fat and thin distractor words compared to weight satisfied women, although groups did not differ in error rates for neutral words. Weight dissatisfied women were also more likely to falsely recognize newly introduced fat words as familiar in a subsequent word recognition task. These effects were maintained after controlling for group differences in body mass index. Findings suggest selective information processing biases related to weight concerns extend to the auditory realm.Keywords Body dissatisfaction Á Attentional bias Á Memory bias Á Dichotic listening Concerns with fatness, weight, and body size are common among adolescent girls and young women and have significant health consequences (e.g., Hoffman and Brownell 1997; Stice and Whitenton 2002). During the past two decades, cognitive-behavioral accounts have garnered considerable interest in explaining weight and body dissatisfaction (e.g., Vitousek and Hollon 1990;Williamson 1996;Williamson et al. 1999). For example, Vitousek and Hollon (1990) posited that people with weight and body image disturbances selectively attend to, appraise, and remember information that is congruent with negative views of their bodies (e.g., fat stimuli), and selectively resist information that is incongruent with positive views of their bodies (e.g., thin stimuli).In support of these contentions, Rieger et al. (1998) found women with eating disorders directed attention away from positive shape words connoting a thin physique and towards negative shape words connoting a large physique in a dot probe study; these results suggested preferential processing of schema-congruent information and impeded processing of schema-incongruent information. In other studies, both clinical and non-clinical samples with body image disturbances devote more attention to threatening body-related information than controls do (e.g., Chen and

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Selective processing of shape‐related words in women with eating disorders, and those who have recovered

Abstract: The results suggest that there may be an enduring cognitive bias among women who have recovered from anorexia. This is the first study in which impairment on an emotional Stroop task has been found to persist after recovery from a clinical condition.

Cited by 46 publications

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The cognitive‐behavioral model of bulimia nervosa: A direct evaluation

The cognitive‐behavioral model of bulimia nervosa: A direct evaluation

Processing of five types of ‘threat’ information in anorexic and bulimic women

Attentional and Memory Biases Among Weight Dissatisfied Young Women: Evidence from a Dichotic Listening Paradigm

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