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Cognitive avoidance in the strategic processing of ego threats among eating-disordered patients

โœ Scribed by Meyer, Caroline ;Serpell, Lucy ;Waller, Glenn ;Murphy, Fay ;Treasure, Janet ;Leung, Newman

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
91 KB
Volume
38
Category
Article
ISSN
0276-3478

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โœฆ Synopsis

Background: This study of strategic processing examined whether it is possible to demonstrate cognitive avoidance of ego threats in women with eating disorders, using a task that involves less automatic identification of threat cues.

Method: Fifty eating-disordered (anorexic and bulimic) and 50 comparison women completed a task of strategic processing, assessing their speed of solving neutral, food-related, and ego threat-related anagrams.

Results: Cognitive avoidance of threatrelated information was shown, but only among women with bulimic characteris-tics. The presence of bulimic behaviors (binging and vomiting) was the clearest factor associated with such avoidance. There was no evidence of avoidance of disorder-related (food) cues.

Discussion: Research and therapeutic implications are discussed, including the potential utility of therapies that directly or indirectly address the schema-level representation of ego threats when working with eating pathology.

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