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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.

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Author:Silja Vocks, Alexandra Wächter, Maike Wucherer, Joachim Kosfelder
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
Licence (German):keine Lizenz - nur Metadaten
Release Date:2021/02/22
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