1. Cognitive distortions and eating pathology: Specificity of thought–shape fusion
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Audrey Pitet, Céline Baeyens, Martine Bouvard, Jennifer S. Coelho, Christine Purdon, Laboratoire Inter-universitaire de Psychologie : Personnalité, Cognition, Changement Social (LIP-PC2S), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo [Waterloo], Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])
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MESH: Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ,Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ,050103 clinical psychology ,MESH: Self Report ,Thinking ,0302 clinical medicine ,Behavior Therapy ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,MESH: Thinking ,MESH: Middle Aged ,05 social sciences ,Eating pathology ,MESH: Behavior Therapy ,Cognition ,Middle Aged ,MESH: Case-Control Studies ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Distress ,Eating disorders ,MESH: Young Adult ,Trait ,[SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,Female ,MESH: Eating Disorders ,Psychology ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Feeding and Eating Disorders ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cognitive distortion ,MESH: Analysis of Variance ,Body Image ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Psychiatry ,MESH: Body Image ,Thought shape fusion ,MESH: Adolescent ,MESH: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder ,Psychiatric Status Rating Scales ,Analysis of Variance ,MESH: Humans ,MESH: Questionnaires ,MESH: Adult ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,MESH: Cognition Disorders ,Case-Control Studies ,Self Report ,Cognition Disorders ,MESH: Female - Abstract
International audience; Thought-shape fusion (TSF) is a cognitive distortion that has been linked with eating pathology; however, the specificity of this distortion to eating disorders has not yet been examined. The current study set out to investigate the effects of a TSF induction on susceptibility to TSF in three groups of women: individuals with an eating disorder (n = 33), individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD; n = 24), and control women with no history of either an eating disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder (n = 26). Participants were assigned to receive either a TSF induction or a neutral induction, and their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral responses were assessed. As expected, the results demonstrated that individuals with eating disorders were more susceptible to TSF than were women with OCD and control participants, reporting higher state TSF, more negative affect, and more neutralization behavior. The results also supported the specificity of this distortion by demonstrating that individuals with OCD were not particularly susceptible to TSF. In fact, control participants demonstrated an increased susceptibility to TSF relative to women with OCD, as evidenced by their higher levels of trait TSF, and increased self-reported distress/difficulty in imagining a food-related situation.
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- 2012