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Social cognition in eating disorders: Encoding and representational processes in binging and purging patients
Author(s) -
RothschildYakar Lily,
Eviatar Zohar,
Shamia Adi,
Gur Eitan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european eating disorders review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.511
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1099-0968
pISSN - 1072-4133
DOI - 10.1002/erv.1013
Subject(s) - attribution , psychology , causality (physics) , cognition , eating disorders , affect (linguistics) , interpersonal communication , social cognition , perception , interpersonal relationship , developmental psychology , social perception , encoding (memory) , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , neuroscience , communication , physics , quantum mechanics
Objective : The present study investigates social cognition impairments in 29 women with bingeing/purging spectrum eating disorders (ED) compared to 27 healthy controls. Method : Measures were used to examine encoding and representational processes in relation to affect perception and affect attribution, as well as the ability to recognize mental causality in social relationships. Results : ED patients failed to correctly encode causality in interpersonal relations, exhibited deficits in their ability to ascribe behaviour to mental states, and showed a greater tendency to attribute negative affects in interpersonal relationships. Stepwise regression analyses suggested that ED symptoms could account for deficits in the recognition of causality in interpersonal relations. Conclusions : In addition to addressing ED symptoms, social cognition deficits should be addressed in the psychological treatment of EDs. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.