Attentional vigilance of food information in disordered eating behaviors

作者：Luyao Jin, Wenyue Han, Zheng Zheng · 发表于：Frontiers in Psychiatry · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1108995 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Eating Disorders and Behaviors、Culinary Culture and Tourism、Mind wandering and attention

Introduction: Disordered eating behaviors (DEBs) are very common among female college students, which seriously endanger their health and well-being. Therefore, the study of the mechanism of DEBs can provide effective evidence for early detection and intervention. Methods: = 25) according to their scores in the Eating Attitudes Test-26 (EAT-26). Then, the Exogenous Cueing Task (ECT) was used to evaluate their reaction time (RT) to the location of a target dot preceded by a food or neutral cue. Results: The study found that compared with HC group, DEB group showed more attentional engagement to food stimuli, indicating that attentional vigilance to food information could be considered as a specific attentional bias of DEBs. Discussion: Our findings not only provide evidence of the potential mechanism of DEBs from the perspective of attentional bias, but also can be considered as an effective and objective indicator for early screening of subclinical eating disorders (EDs).