ArticleResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2023
Attention Biases for Eating Disorder-Related Stimuli Versus Social Stimuli in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa - An Eye-Tracking Study.
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- Food and body-related attentional biases in children and adolescents with eating disorder symptoms, overweight and obesity: a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
- Evidence of Altered Biobehavioral Threat Processes in Adolescents With Eating Disorders: A Scoping Review.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Visual Attention Patterns Toward Female Bodies in Anorexia Nervosa-An Eye-Tracking Study with Adolescents and Adults.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Transdiagnostic body dissatisfaction: comparing adolescents with anorexia nervosa and depression during body exposure.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Social rejection sensitivity and its role in anorexia nervosa: a systematic review of experimental literature.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
- Awareness of Eating Disorders, Nutritional Knowledge, and Emotionally Driven Eating Among Polish Adolescents Aged 15-17-A Pilot Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Does Identifying with Another Face Alter Body Image Disturbance in Women with an Eating Disorder? An Enfacement Illusion Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Attentional Processing Biases in Young People With Binging and Purging Behavior.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Psychotherapy 2.0 - Application context and effectiveness of sensor technology in psychotherapy with children and adolescents: A systematic review.Internet interventions · 2024Review
- Autistic traits and perspective taking in youths with anorexia nervosa: an exploratory clinical and eye tracking study.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
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Abstract
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterized by attention biases for eating disorder-related information as well as altered attentional processing of social information. However, little is known about the interplay between the altered attentional processing of these two types of information. The present study investigates attention biases for eating disorder-related information (pictures of bodies) versus social information (pictures of faces), in adolescents with AN. Attention biases were assessed via eye-tracking during a passive-viewing task in which female bodies and faces were presented simultaneously and thus competed directly for attention. Female adolescents (13-18 years) with AN (n = 28) were compared to a clinical comparison group (adolescents with major depression; n = 20) and a comparison group of adolescents with no mental illness (n = 24). All groups looked longer at bodies than at faces, i.e., showed attention biases for bodies in maintenance of attention. These biases were more pronounced in adolescents with AN than in both comparison groups, particularly for underweight bodies, at the expense of looking less at social stimuli. The results indicate "dual" attention biases in adolescents with AN (i.e., towards bodies and away from emotional faces) which could have a twofold negative impact on eating disorder psychopathology: increased attention to eating disorder-related information might directly influence eating disorder symptoms while less attention to social information might have an indirect influence through the amplification of interpersonal difficulties.
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