## Objectives: The aim was to assess, using sophisticated experimental methods, the amount of interference on a stroop task in patients with eating disorders, under conditions of blocked and mixed stimulus presentation. ## Methods: Patients with eating disorders and non-patients named the color i
Further evidence for the stroop test as a quantitative measure of psychopathology in eating disorders
โ Scribed by Ben-Tovim, David I. ;Walker, M. Kay
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 268 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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โฆ Synopsis
The re$ponse, of patients with anorexid nervosa and bulimia on an ddaptation of the Stroop Te,t using Food and Shape words, were compxed with the responAe3 oi non-eating-disordered adolescent females having high or low Drive-Tor-Thrnnp,s scores on the Eating Disorders Inventory (ED/) The dnorexics dnrf bulimics showed signihcantly higher response times to both f o o d and Shdpe Stroop k i t s than did either ot the normal groups This i s seen to be further evidence tor the ef/icac y of the duthors' adaptation 01 the Stroop test as a measure ot the core psychopdthology in eating disorders
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This report describes an adaptation of the Stroop Effect for measuring psychopathology. The Stroop Effect has been adapted to provide a quantitative measure of concerns relating to food and shape in patients undergoing treatment for anorexia nervosa and bulimia. The measure takes advantage of the di