Interpersonal attribution bias and social evaluation in adolescent eating disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Improved understanding of adolescent eating disorders (EDs), including identification and refinement of treatment and recovery targets, may help improve clinical outcomes. Interpersonal function is a proposed risk and maintenance factor that may be particularly relevant given the significance of adolescence for both psychosocial development and ED onset. This study examined self-referential thinking in adolescents with EDs compared to healthy adolescents.

Method

Twenty-nine adolescents with EDs and 31 healthy controls completed a self-report measure of interpersonal attributions as well as a verbal appraisal task that required conducting direct and indirect evaluations about oneself and direct evaluations about others.

Results

The ED group had a more negativ

SUBMITTER: Harper JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898092 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature