Eating Problems and Implicit Attitudes Toward Food and Body Shape/Weight

OHTSUKI Tomu, KAMIMURA Eiichi, SUGIYAMA Masahiko

doi:10.24468/jjbt.33.1_13

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食行動異常度と食事や体型・体重に対する潜在的な態度との関連 : Implicit Association Test(IAT)を用いた実験心理学的アプローチ(原著)

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The purpose of the present study was to use the Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald et al., 1998) to assess the implicit associations of individuals scoring high and low on the Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26). Participants were 56 female college students. Students with high or low scores on the EAT-26 completed two other instruments: FOOD-IAT and BODY-IAT. Each IAT was designed to assess the strength of memory associations. The FOOD-IAT measured the implicit association between food and evaluation; BODY-IAT measured the association between body shape/weight and evaluation. The results showed that there was no difference in the FOOD-IAT scores between students with high and low scores. On the other hand, in the implicit association between body shape/weight, high scorers' associations were more positive than low scorers'. These results suggest that eating problems measured by the EAT-26 related to a bias in certain aspects of information processing, such as implicit associa-tions, which play a crucial role in various forms of psychopathology (De Houwer, 2002). The findings are discussed in relation to recent psychopathological research into implicit associations and dysfunctional beliefs in eating disorders.

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Japanese Journal of Behavior Therapy

Japanese Journal of Behavior Therapy 33 (1), 13-24, 2007-03-31

Japanese Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies( JABCT )

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CRID: 1390845713075925760

NII Article ID: 110009668084

DOI: 10.24468/jjbt.33.1_13

ISSN: 24242594; 09106529

Text Lang: ja

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