Attentional processing of body images in women with overweight and obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Despite the claim to integrate body image interventions in obesity treatment, little is known about the mechanisms involved in maintaining body dissatisfaction in persons with overweight and obesity. Therefore, the present study sought to investigate attentional processing of body stimuli in women with overweight and obesity (OW).

Methods

Women with OW (n = 82) and normal weight controls (NW; n = 44) conducted two eye-tracking paradigms. In the first paradigm, fixation duration on the subjectively most beautiful and ugliest body part of one's own and a weight-matched control body were analyzed. In the second paradigm, picture pairs including the own and a control body or object were presented and initial fixation orientation was measured. Automatic and intentional pr

SUBMITTER: Baur J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9556367 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature