Abstract:By recording event‐related potentials (ERPs) during a dot‐probe task, the present study examined the neural dynamics of attentional bias toward height‐related words among height dissatisfied males. Sixty male participants screened by Negative Physical Self Scale‐Stature Concerns subscale (NPS‐S) were assigned into a high height dissatisfaction (HHD) group and a low height dissatisfaction (LHD) group. The results showed that tall‐related versus neutral words elicited larger N2pc for both HHD and LHD groups, whe… Show more
“…How to cite this article: Yao, J., Leng, X., Chen, Y., Chen, M., Liu, A., Feng, C., & Feng, W. (2023). Attentional suppression of weight related distractors among females with weight dissatisfaction.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…And indi viduals with higher levels of anxiety exhibited greater at tentional suppression, as reflected by larger P D . Besides, in the field of body image, Chen et al (2023) applied the dot probe paradigm to examine the attentional biases toward height related information among males with high height dissatisfaction (HHD). The results showed that compared to the neutral words, tall related words elicited larger N2pc for both the HHD group and control group and short related words elicited larger N2pc only for the HHD group.…”
Although many studies have investigated attentional biases toward weight‐related information among individuals with weight dissatisfaction, the mechanisms underlying the processing of task‐irrelevant and spatial‐irrelevant weight‐related information as distractors remain unclear. Participants were assigned to groups according to their levels of weight dissatisfaction to address this question. Participants with high weight dissatisfaction (HWD) were assigned to the experimental group; those with low weight dissatisfaction (LWD) were assigned to a control group. By recording event‐related potentials during a visual search task along the median vertical line, fatness‐related/thinness‐related/neutral words and scrambled strokes were presented horizontally in pairs as task‐irrelevant distractors. The results showed that intact words facilitated fast attentional orienting compared to scrambled strokes, as revealed by the significant N2pc for all types of intact words for both the HWD and LWD groups. More importantly, only fatness‐ and thinness‐related words elicited the evident PD in the HWD group, and the PD amplitudes were larger in the HWD group compared to the LWD group. These findings suggest that weight‐related distractors were actively suppressed after initial attentional orienting among females with HWD. This reveals the mechanisms of attentional biases toward weight‐related information among females with HWD and contributes to the model of the cognitive‐behavioral theory of body image disturbance. These results may help enhance prevention and interventions for reducing weight dissatisfaction.
“…How to cite this article: Yao, J., Leng, X., Chen, Y., Chen, M., Liu, A., Feng, C., & Feng, W. (2023). Attentional suppression of weight related distractors among females with weight dissatisfaction.…”
Section: Conflict Of Interest Statementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…And indi viduals with higher levels of anxiety exhibited greater at tentional suppression, as reflected by larger P D . Besides, in the field of body image, Chen et al (2023) applied the dot probe paradigm to examine the attentional biases toward height related information among males with high height dissatisfaction (HHD). The results showed that compared to the neutral words, tall related words elicited larger N2pc for both the HHD group and control group and short related words elicited larger N2pc only for the HHD group.…”
Although many studies have investigated attentional biases toward weight‐related information among individuals with weight dissatisfaction, the mechanisms underlying the processing of task‐irrelevant and spatial‐irrelevant weight‐related information as distractors remain unclear. Participants were assigned to groups according to their levels of weight dissatisfaction to address this question. Participants with high weight dissatisfaction (HWD) were assigned to the experimental group; those with low weight dissatisfaction (LWD) were assigned to a control group. By recording event‐related potentials during a visual search task along the median vertical line, fatness‐related/thinness‐related/neutral words and scrambled strokes were presented horizontally in pairs as task‐irrelevant distractors. The results showed that intact words facilitated fast attentional orienting compared to scrambled strokes, as revealed by the significant N2pc for all types of intact words for both the HWD and LWD groups. More importantly, only fatness‐ and thinness‐related words elicited the evident PD in the HWD group, and the PD amplitudes were larger in the HWD group compared to the LWD group. These findings suggest that weight‐related distractors were actively suppressed after initial attentional orienting among females with HWD. This reveals the mechanisms of attentional biases toward weight‐related information among females with HWD and contributes to the model of the cognitive‐behavioral theory of body image disturbance. These results may help enhance prevention and interventions for reducing weight dissatisfaction.
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