RESTRAINED AND UNRESTRAINED FEMALES POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASSOCIATIONS WITH SPECIFIC FOODS AND BODY PARTS

Citation
M. Gattellari et Gf. Huon, RESTRAINED AND UNRESTRAINED FEMALES POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASSOCIATIONS WITH SPECIFIC FOODS AND BODY PARTS, The International journal of eating disorders, 21(4), 1997, pp. 377-383
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology, Clinical",Psychiatry,Psychology,"Nutrition & Dietetics",Psychiatry
ISSN journal
02763478
Volume
21
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
377 - 383
Database
ISI
SICI code
0276-3478(1997)21:4<377:RAUFPA>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Objective: This study was concerned with the positive and negative aff ective associations pf categories of ''forbidden'' and ''allowed'' foo ds, and ''threatening'' and ''nonthreatening'' body parts, among diete rs and nondieters. Method: Forty-one females, categorized according to their cognitive restraint scores, completed a rating task that involv ed indicating the extent to which each food and body part was associat ed with three positive and three negative emotions or experiences, as well as with health and illness. Results: Judgements of forbidden food s were more positive. There was also a significant restraint group by food type interaction for negative judgements of forbidden foods. A si gnificant interaction was also produced for subjects' negative ratings of body parts; subjects high in restraint were more likely to rate th reatening parts higher on guilt and on anxiety. Forbidden foods were r ated lower on health and higher on illness, and high restraint subject s rated both food types more healthy compared with subjects low in res traint Discussion: Taken together, the results emphasize the subtlety in the affective associations with foods and body parts, which depend on their categorization or specific meanings. Fewer differences emerge d when we compared subjects from the high and low restraint groups. Em otionality could underly the ''attentional biases'' reported in studie s using the modified Stroop. (C) 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.