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Selective attention for unattractive body parts causes body dissatisfaction

E Smeets, A Jansen, T Lindelauf, A Roefs · Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie · 2009 · Heft 02

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Zeitschrift
Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie
Autor:innen
E Smeets, A Jansen, T Lindelauf, A Roefs
Ausgabe
Heft 02 / 2009
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Erschienen: 2009-02-18 00:00:00
ISSN
0937-2032
DOI
10.1055/s-0029-1208171

Zusammenfassung

Body dissatisfaction plays a key role in the maintenance of eating disorders and selective attention might be crucial for the origin of body dissatisfaction. Jansen et al., (2005) showed that eating disorder patients attend relatively more to their own unattractive body parts, whereas healthy controls attend relatively more to their own attractive body parts. In the current study, it was investigated whether this bias in selective attention is causal to body dissatisfaction. To test this hypothesis, we trained attention to either onersquor;s self-defined unattractive body parts (i.e., negative bias training) or…

Schlagworte

Attentional bias Body dissatisfaction Eating disorders Eye-movements attentional retraining. Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie