Altered social cognition in a community sample of women with disordered eating behaviours: a multi-method approach

Abstract Prior work suggests that individuals with an eating disorder demonstrate task-based and overall differences in sociocognitive functioning. However, the majority of studies assessed specifically anorexia nervosa and often employed a single experimental paradigm, providing a piecemeal underst...

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Autores principales:	Devon S. Heath, Nimrit Jhinjar, Dana A. Hayward
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b865470e376b4c4a83f6d159c9695f7b2021-12-02T17:55:09ZAltered social cognition in a community sample of women with disordered eating behaviours: a multi-method approach10.1038/s41598-021-94117-42045-2322https://doaj.org/article/b865470e376b4c4a83f6d159c9695f7b2021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94117-4https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Prior work suggests that individuals with an eating disorder demonstrate task-based and overall differences in sociocognitive functioning. However, the majority of studies assessed specifically anorexia nervosa and often employed a single experimental paradigm, providing a piecemeal understanding of the applicability of various lab tasks in denoting meaningful differences across diverse individuals. The current study was designed to address these outstanding issues. Participants were undergraduate females who self-identified as having an official (n = 18) eating disorder diagnosis or disordered eating behaviours with no diagnosis (n = 18), along with a control group (n = 32). Participants completed three social tasks of increasing complexity with different outcome measures, namely a gaze cueing task, passive video-watching using eyetracking, and a task to measure preferred social distance. Results diverged as a function of group across tasks; only the control group produced typical social attention effects, the disordered eating group looked significantly more at faces, and the eating disorder group demonstrated a significantly larger preferred social distance. These results suggest variations in task efficacy and demonstrate that altered sociocognitive functioning extends beyond official eating disorder diagnosis.Devon S. HeathNimrit JhinjarDana A. HaywardNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2021)
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description	Abstract Prior work suggests that individuals with an eating disorder demonstrate task-based and overall differences in sociocognitive functioning. However, the majority of studies assessed specifically anorexia nervosa and often employed a single experimental paradigm, providing a piecemeal understanding of the applicability of various lab tasks in denoting meaningful differences across diverse individuals. The current study was designed to address these outstanding issues. Participants were undergraduate females who self-identified as having an official (n = 18) eating disorder diagnosis or disordered eating behaviours with no diagnosis (n = 18), along with a control group (n = 32). Participants completed three social tasks of increasing complexity with different outcome measures, namely a gaze cueing task, passive video-watching using eyetracking, and a task to measure preferred social distance. Results diverged as a function of group across tasks; only the control group produced typical social attention effects, the disordered eating group looked significantly more at faces, and the eating disorder group demonstrated a significantly larger preferred social distance. These results suggest variations in task efficacy and demonstrate that altered sociocognitive functioning extends beyond official eating disorder diagnosis.
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title	Altered social cognition in a community sample of women with disordered eating behaviours: a multi-method approach
title_short	Altered social cognition in a community sample of women with disordered eating behaviours: a multi-method approach
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Altered social cognition in a community sample of women with disordered eating behaviours: a multi-method approach

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