Look at yourself: can body image therapy affect the cognitive and emotional response to seeing oneself in the mirror in eating disorders?
- The study examined whether the extent of negative body-related thoughts and emotions evoked by looking in a mirror can be changed by cognitive-behavioural body image therapy (BIT) and whether any remaining cognitive and affective responses dropped faster after the treatment. Females with eating disorders (n = 17) looked in a mirror for 40 minutes under standardised conditions before and after BIT. A control group (CG) (n = 24) was also exposed to their own bodies twice. Cognitive and affective reactions were assessed four times during the session. Hierarchical Linear Modelling revealed that among eating-disordered patients, the entrance levels of negative thoughts and feelings were lower at post compared to pre-BIT, whereas they remained stable in the CG. The extent of reduction of the remaining body image distress was not changed after the treatment. BIT seems to be a potent treatment of negative emotions and cognitions in an in vivo situation.
Author: | Silja Vocks, Alexandra Wächter, Maike Wucherer, Joachim Kosfelder |
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Fachbereich/Einrichtung: | Hochschule Düsseldorf / Fachbereich - Sozial- & Kulturwissenschaften |
Document Type: | Article |
Year of Completion: | 2008 |
Language of Publication: | English |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Parent Title (English): | European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 2 |
First Page: | 147 |
Last Page: | 154 |
Related URL: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17721910 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.825 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
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Release Date: | 2021/02/22 |