The effect of attentional bias toward shape- and weight-related information on body dissatisfaction

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 509-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Smith ◽  
Elizabeth Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
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Improving Body Satisfaction

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolien Martijn ◽  
Jessica M. Alleva ◽  
Anita Jansen
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Automatic System ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
Western Society ◽  
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Women And Girls

Feelings of body dissatisfaction are common in Western society, especially in women and girls. More than innocent discontent, body dissatisfaction can have serious consequences such as depression and eating disorders. The current article discusses the nature of body dissatisfaction, how it develops and how it is currently being treated. We also discuss novel strategies to increase body satisfaction that work on the automatic system (e.g., by retraining attentional and conditioning processes), since recent research suggests that appearance-related information is processed automatically. We suggest that extant methods should be combined with these novel strategies, in order to optimally improve body dissatisfaction and to prevent its detrimental consequences.

scholarly journals The influence of gender and body dissatisfaction on body‐related attentional bias: An eye‐tracking and virtual reality study

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (10) ◽  
pp. 1181-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Porras‐Garcia ◽  
Marta Ferrer‐Garcia ◽  
Alexandra Ghita ◽  
Manuel Moreno ◽  
Laura López‐Jiménez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Attentional Bias

scholarly journals Attentional bias to pain-related information: a meta-analysis of dot-probe studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemma Todd ◽  
Dimitri M.L. van Ryckeghem ◽  
Louise Sharpe ◽  
Geert Crombez
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Dot Probe ◽  
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scholarly journals The predictive value of attentional bias towards pain-related information in chronic pain patients: A diary study

Pain ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 154 (3) ◽  
pp. 468-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitri M.L. Van Ryckeghem ◽  
Geert Crombez ◽  
Liesbet Goubert ◽  
Jan De Houwer ◽  
Thomas Onraedt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Diary Study ◽  
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scholarly journals Male body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms, body composition, and attentional bias to body stimuli evaluated using visual search

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 204380871984829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Talbot ◽  
Evelyn Smith ◽  
John Cass
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Visual Search ◽  
Body Dissatisfaction ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Body Fat ◽  
Target Line ◽  
Male Body ◽  
Eating Disorder Symptoms ◽  
Male Body Image ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigated the relationship between body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms, and attentional bias to images of male bodies using a compound visual search task. Sixty-three male participants searched for a horizontal or vertical target line among tilted lines. A separate male body image was presented within proximity to each line. Overall, search times were faster when the target line was paired with a muscular or obese body and distractor lines were paired with bodies of average muscularity and body fat ( congruent trials) than on neutral trials, in which only average muscularity and body fat images were shown. Attentional bias for muscular bodies was correlated with muscle dissatisfaction, eating restraint, and shape concern, and attentional bias for obese bodies was correlated with eating restraint. For incongruent trials, in which a single muscular or obese body was paired with a distractor line, search times were indistinguishable from neutral trials. Unexpectedly, we found a negative association between search times and both body fat dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in conditions where obese bodies were paired with distracting stimuli. This result implicates a potential role for attentional filtering and/or avoidance of obese bodies in predicting body fat dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptomology.

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