Global/local processing style: Explaining the relationship between trait anxiety and binge eating.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Anxiety is a risk factor for disordered eating, but the mechanisms by which anxiety promotes disordered eating are poorly understood. One possibility is local versus global cognitive processing style, defined as a relative tendency to attend to details at the expense of the "big picture." Anxiety may narrow attention, in turn, enhancing local and/or compromising global processing. We examined relationships between global/local processing style, anxiety, and disordered eating behaviors in a transdiagnostic outpatient clinical sample. We hypothesized that local (vs. global) processing bias would mediate the relationship between anxiety and disordered eating behaviors.

Method

Ninety-three participants completed the eating disorder examination-questionnaire (EDE-Q), St

SUBMITTER: Becker KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5766013 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature