Researchers have recently combined clinical and cognitive areas of research in order to investigate the role of cognitive factors in explaining how emotional disorders are developed and maintained. It is believed that biased cognitive processing of emotionally relevant information can greatly affect emotional responses and behaviour where insights into such cognitive processes can have invaluable clinical implications.The present thesis investigates the role of cognitive biases for information related to food and body appearance in individuals with eating disorders (ED) and those with non-clinically eating disorder-related concerns (NED). Are ED characterised by cognitive biases toward such information related to their specific concerns? Are such cognitive biases specific to clinical ED or present also in NED samples? Are cognitive biases operating at both conscious and unconscious levels of cognitive processing? The tasks used to pursue these questions were: the emotional Stroop task, an Internet version of the emotional Stroop, Jacoby’s white noise paradigm and a recognition task…
Contents
Introduction
Eating disorders: an overview
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
Eating disorder not otherwise specified
Non-clinical concerns with body weight, shape and eating
Causes of eating disorders relevant for the present thesis
Socio-cultural factors
Body dissatisfaction
Cognitive factors
Cognition and emotion
Emotion
Cognition
Bower’s network theory
Cognition and emotional disorders
Beck’s schema theory
Integrative model by Williams and colleagues
Cognition and eating disorders
Methods
The emotional Stroop task
Explicit memory
Implicit memory
Jacoby’s white noise judgement task
Aim of the present thesis
Study I
Introduction
Method
Participants
Self-report measures
Results
Discussion
Study II
Introduction
Method
Results
Discussion
Study III
Introduction
Method
Participants
Self-report measures
Results
Discussion
Study IV
Introduction
Methods
Participants
Self-report measures
Results
Discussion
General discussion
Main findings in the studies
Theoretical discussion
Clinical implications
Methodological considerations
Future research
Summary of the findings in the thesis
Acknowledgments
References
Author: Johansson, Linda
Source: Uppsala University Library
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