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| Research article summary (published 29 Jun 2002): |
The effect of fasting on attentional biases for food and body shape/weight words in high and low Eating Disorder Inventory scorers.
Full Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To assess attentional biases associated with food and body shape/weight words in fasted and nonfasted high and low Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2) scorers.
METHOD:
Subjects were 56 female first-year undergraduate psychology students, aged 17-24 years, participating for course credit. High and low scorers on the Drive for Thinness and Body Dissatisfaction subscales of the EDI-2 completed alternative modified dot probe tasks containing food words, body shape/weight words, and control words, under fasted and nonfasted conditions.
RESULTS:
Fasting increased attentional bias toward high-calorie food words across all subjects. High EDI-2 scorers also showed an attentional bias toward low-calorie words, but only when nonfasted.
DISCUSSION:
Food-related attentional biases, commonly observed in eating disorder patients, may reflect a pervasive concern with food-related stimuli as opposed to being simply a product of chronic hunger. That is, with increasing hunger, high EDI-2 scorers shift their focus away from low-calorie foods to high-calorie foods. This result suggests an attentional bias basis for the cycle of high-calorie binging when hungry and low-calorie food selections when less hungry.
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Author information
Author/s: Placanica, Jennifer L (JL); Faunce, Gavin J (GJ); Soames Job, R F (RF);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: The International journal of eating disorders (Int J Eat Disord), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Jul; vol 32 (issue 1) : pp 79-90
Dates: Created 2002/08/19; Completed 2002/11/29; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12183949, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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