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Video‐feedback and personal attribution in anorexic, depressed and normal viewers
Author(s) -
Biggs Simon J.,
Rosen Bernard,
Summerfield Angela B.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8341.1980.tb02548.x
Subject(s) - psychology , attribution , social psychology , psychotherapist
Video‐feedback has been shown to be particularly influential in changing bodily awareness and causal attribution by confronting participants with a concrete ‘public’ self‐image. Body‐image disturbance and denial are major aspects of patients suffering with anorexia nervosa. It was predicted that video‐feedback should alter these attitudes in this group and result in a more realistic self‐appraisal. Anorexics respond to video‐feedback with a reduction in self‐esteem whereas normal controls displayed an increase in self‐esteem and depressed patients perceived themselves negatively both before and after video‐feedback. It is concluded that video‐feedback may prove to be a useful technique in the treatment of body‐image disturbance in anorexic patients.