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Objective: This study examined the effect of cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM‐I) training in Korean women with eating disorders (EDs). Method: Sixty‐three women with EDs participated in the study. Participants were randomly assigned to the intervention group where they received six sessions of CBM‐I training (n = 31) in addition to treatment‐as‐usual or were put on a waiting list (n = 32). Participants' interpretation and attention biases, emotion regulation, affect, and ED psychopathology were assessed at baseline, end‐of‐intervention (4 weeks), and follow‐up (8 weeks). Results: Participants who completed the CBM‐I training displayed greater reductions in negative interpretation bias (Δη2 = 0.107) and emotion dysregulation (Δη2 = 0.085) with medium to large effect sizes compared to the control group, which were maintained from baseline to follow‐up. Disengagement from negative faces and a focus on positive faces was found in the intervention group with a moderate effect size at the end‐of‐intervention (Δη2 = 0.090). Both intervention and control groups showed improvements in ED psychopathology. Baseline neuroticism was positively correlated with CBM‐I effect. Discussion: The results suggest that modifying interpretation bias towards ambiguous social stimuli might be an effective adjuvant treatment to reduce negative expectations of social situations and improve emotion regulation in women with bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. Highlights: Cognitive bias modification for interpretation (CBM‐I) training decreased negative interpretation bias towards ambiguous social situations with large effect sizes in women with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa.The training also reduced attention bias towards negative face stimuli, difficulties in emotion regulation, and negative affect with moderate effect sizes.Participants with higher levels of baseline neuroticism experienced the training effect to a greater extent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This study aimed at investigating the negative emotion‐related eating behaviours of young women with extreme weights or eating disorders (EDs). Method: A total of 808 young women participated including 144 with underweight (UW), 364 with normal‐weight (NW) and 137 with overweight (OW; including 27 with obesity) from universities, and 63 patients with anorexia nervosa (AN), and 100 patients with bulimia nervosa (BN) from a hospital. Participants were interviewed and completed questionnaires on eating behaviours related to negative emotions. Results: While both OW and BN groups ate more in response to negative emotions, UW and AN groups ate less compared to NW group. Negative feelings after overeating were prominent in OW group and patients with ED. In negative emotions, patients with EDs preferred sweet tastes, but BN group preferred spicy tastes less. Patients with EDs had increased external eating, and BN group also showed increased restrained eating. Neuroticism had indirect impacts on OW status via emotional eating unlike BN. Conclusions: The results suggest that UW and OW status were on the spectrum of emotional eating, and AN and BN were on the extremes of external eating, which may be integrated into the development of interventions targeting each status. Highlights: Overweight (OW) and bulimia nervosa (BN) groups ate more than usual in response to negative emotion, whereas underweight (UW) and anorexia nervosa (AN) groups ate less than usual compared to normal‐weight (NW) group.OW, AN and BN groups experienced negative feelings after overeating. AN and BN groups preferred sweet tastes when feeling negative emotions.Neuroticism both directly and indirectly affected BN, while OW status was affected only indirectly via emotional eating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]