Journal article
Role of attention, memory, and covariation-detection processes in clinically significant eating-disorder symptoms
Journal of mathematical psychology, Vol.54(1), pp.184-195
2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2008.11.003
Abstract
Cognitive theorists implicate a role for cognitive processing of shape- and weight-related information in the maintenance and potential etiology of eating disorders. The present study examines the role of women’s processing of information regarding other women’s body size and affect in eating disorder symptoms among young women. 253 female undergraduates completed attention, memory, and covariation-detection tasks that presented full-body photographs of young women, as well as an eating-disorder measure. High-Symptom women, relative to Medium- and Low-Symptom women, showed greater relative attention to body size than affect, better memory for body size and worse memory for affect, and enhanced sensitivity to the manipulated covariation between body size and affect. All participants perceived an illusory correlation between body size and affect. These findings suggest that cognitive theories may be extended usefully by considering processing of other-relevant and affective information, as well as the role of covariation-detection processes in eating disorders.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Role of attention, memory, and covariation-detection processes in clinically significant eating-disorder symptoms
- Creators
- Teresa A Treat - Yale University, United StatesRichard J Viken - Indiana University, United StatesJohn K Kruschke - Indiana University, United StatesRichard M McFall - Indiana University, United States
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of mathematical psychology, Vol.54(1), pp.184-195
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jmp.2008.11.003
- ISSN
- 0022-2496
- eISSN
- 1096-0880
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2010
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984002455402771
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