Attentional vigilance of food information in disordered eating behaviors

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Zheng Zheng¹  Luyao Jin¹  Wenyue Han² 

[1] School of Medicine & Holistic Integrative Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China;School of Medicine & Holistic Integrative Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China;Changzhou Vocational Institute of Textile and Garment, Changzhou, China;

关键词: disordered eating behavior;    attentional bias;    exogenous cueing task;    attentional vigilance;    female college students;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1108995

 received in 2022-12-19, accepted in 2023-01-30,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

IntroductionDisordered eating behaviors (DEBs) are very common among female college students, which seriously endanger their health and well-being. Therefore, the study of the mechanism of DEBs can provide effective evidence for early detection and intervention.MethodsIn total of 54 female college students were recruited and assigned to DEB group (n = 29) and healthy control (HC) group (n = 25) according to their scores in the Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26). Then, the Exogenous Cueing Task (ECT) was used to evaluate their reaction time (RT) to the location of a target dot preceded by a food or neutral cue.ResultsThe study found that compared with HC group, DEB group showed more attentional engagement to food stimuli, indicating that attentional vigilance to food information could be considered as a specific attentional bias of DEBs.DiscussionOur findings not only provide evidence of the potential mechanism of DEBs from the perspective of attentional bias, but also can be considered as an effective and objective indicator for early screening of subclinical eating disorders (EDs).

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