Is visual information use during facial emotion recognition related to eating disorder symptoms in college-aged men and women? An experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies of emotion recognition abilities of people with eating disorders used accuracy to identify performance deficits for these individuals. The current study examined eating disorder symptom severity as a function of emotion categorization abilities, using a visual cognition paradigm that offers insights into how emotional faces may be categorized, as opposed to just how well these faces are categorized.

Methods

Undergraduate students (N = 87, 50 women, 34 men, 3 non-binary) completed the Bubbles task and a standard emotion categorization task, as well as a set of questionnaires assessing their eating disorder symptomology and comorbid disorders. We examined the relationship between visual information use (assessed via Bubbles) and eating disorder symp

SUBMITTER: Nudnou I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11445859 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature