Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Int J Eat Disord. 2011 Jan;44(1):50-7. doi: 10.1002/eat.20776.
Theoretical models suggest that body checking is linked to biased cognitive processing. However, this link has not been investigated in any systematic way. The present study examined the influence of body checking on attentional bias for body-related cues by manipulating body checking behaviors in nonclinical participants.
66 women were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: body checking, body exposure, or control. A body visual search task was used to measure attentional bias.
Participants in the body checking condition showed speeded detection of body-related information compared to participants in the exposure and control conditions. No evidence was found for increased distraction by body-related information. Furthermore, participants in the body checking condition reported more body dissatisfaction after the manipulation than participants in the body exposure and control conditions.
These results are the first to experimentally establish the link between body checking and attentional bias toward body-related cues.
理论模型表明，身体检查与偏置认知处理有关。然而，这一联系尚未以任何系统的方式进行调查。本研究通过在非临床参与者中操纵身体检查行为，考察了身体检查对与身体相关线索的注意偏向的影响。
66 名女性被随机分配到以下三种条件之一：身体检查、身体暴露或对照组。使用身体视觉搜索任务来衡量注意力偏向。
与暴露和对照组的参与者相比，身体检查条件下的参与者对身体相关信息的检测速度更快。没有证据表明身体相关信息会增加分心。此外，与身体暴露和对照组的参与者相比，身体检查条件下的参与者在操作后报告了更多的身体不满。
这些结果首次在实验中确立了身体检查与对身体相关线索的注意力偏向之间的联系。
