The processing of threat-related information in female dieters and non-dieters

✍ Scribed by Stephanie Quinton

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1072-4133
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0968(199812)6:4<266::aid-erv223>3.0.co;2-d

✦ Synopsis

It has been suggested that bulimic attitudes and behaviours serve the function of reducing awareness, especially where a situation is perceived as threatening. Considering a non-clinical population of female dieters and non-dieters, this study tested the prediction that a higher level of bulimic attitudes would be associated with an attentional bias to threat' information. Using a Stroop task, interference in the colour-naming of threat' information was positively and signi®cantly associated with the level of bulimic attitudes in dieters only. This ®nding supported `escape from awareness' models of bulimia. *