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Negative Mood Increases Selective Attention to Negatively Valenced Body Parts in Female Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa

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  • Jennifer Svaldi
  • Caroline Bender
  • Detlef Caffier
  • Viliana Ivanova
  • Nina Mies
  • Christian Fleischhaker
  • Brunna Tuschen-Caffier

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Objective: Previous research has yielded evidence of increased attentional processing of negatively valenced body parts in women with anorexia nervosa (AN), especially for those with high depressive symptomatology. The present study extended previous research by implementing an experimental mood manipulation. Method: In a within-subjects design, female adolescents with AN (n = 12) and an age matched female control group (CG; n = 12) were given a negative and a positive mood induction at a one-week interval. After each mood induction, participants underwent a 3-min mirror exposure, while their eye movements were recorded. Results: After the positive mood induction, both AN and CG participants displayed longer and more frequent gazes towards their self-defined most ugly relative to their self-defined most beautiful body part. However, after the negative mood induction, only females with AN were characterized by increased attention to their most ugly compared to their most beautiful body part, while CG participants’ attention distribution was balanced. Furthermore, in the negative (but not in the positive) mood induction condition gaze frequency and duration towards the most ugly body part was significantly stronger in the AN group relative to the CG. Discussion: The results emphasize the role of negative mood in the maintenance of pathological information processing of the self-body. This increased body-related negativity-bias during negative mood may lead to the persistence and aggravation of AN patients’ body image disturbance.

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  • Jennifer Svaldi & Caroline Bender & Detlef Caffier & Viliana Ivanova & Nina Mies & Christian Fleischhaker & Brunna Tuschen-Caffier, 2016. "Negative Mood Increases Selective Attention to Negatively Valenced Body Parts in Female Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(4), pages 1-18, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0154462
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154462
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