Relations between implicit attitudes towards eating disorder stimuli and disordered eating symptoms among at-risk college women.
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Abstract | :
This study examined implicit attitudes towards different eating disorder (ED) relevant stimuli- emaciation, hard-exercise, the self, and eating related stimuli-and their relationship with explicit ED symptoms in two symptomatic samples of college-aged women. Study 1 found that positive implicit attitudes towards eating and self-relevant images were associated with greater state body image satisfaction and self-esteem and with less ED-related intentions. Study 2 found that positive implicit attitudes towards eating and self-relevant images were associated with less trait global ED psychopathology and distress and greater self-esteem. Overall, positive implicit evaluations of eating and self-related stimuli were negatively associated with ED symptoms and related psychopathology and positively related to self-esteem. However, implicit attitudes towards emaciation and hard exercise were not associated with explicit ED symptoms in either sample. These findings suggest that implicit attitudes towards eating and self-related stimuli, in particular, may be viable targets for reconditioning in novel treatment paradigms such as therapeutic evaluative conditioning interventions. |
Year of Publication | :
2021
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Journal | :
Eating behaviors
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Volume | :
41
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Number of Pages | :
101499
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ISSN Number | :
1471-0153
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URL | :
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1471-0153(21)00026-X
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DOI | :
10.1016/j.eatbeh.2021.101499
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Short Title | :
Eat Behav
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