The Effect of Neuroticism Level on Restrained Eaters’ Self-enhancement and Eating Behavior following Exposure to Thin-ideal Images

김지향,; 이장한,

doi:10.15842/kjcp.2016.35.1.010

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“…Four hundred seventy-five female undergraduate students were recruited, and eighty-five students ( M age = 22.81 ± 1.59, M BMI = 20.13 ± 2.04) ultimately participated in this study. Based on the previous research concerning categorizing participants into four groups based on restraint/neuroticism (Kim and Lee, 2016), participants were selected only if they belonged to the upper or lower 25% of the dietary restraint (a score under 39 or over 51) and neuroticism level (a score under 135 or over 149) using Restraint Scale (RS; Herman and Polivy, 1980) and neuroticism items in Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R; Costa and McCrae, 1992), respectively. They were divided into four groups: restrained eaters with high neuroticism (R-H), restrained eaters with low neuroticism (R-L), unrestrained eaters with high neuroticism (U-H) and unrestrained eaters with low neuroticism (U-L).…”

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The Effect of Neuroticism Level on Restrained Eaters’ Thinness Fantasy and Attentional Bias for Food

Kim

Lee

2019

Front. Psychol.

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The aim of this study was to examine the role of restrained eaters’ neuroticism level in thinness fantasy and attentional bias for food following exposure to thin-ideal images. Eighty-five female participants were classified into four groups on the basis of their dietary restraint (restrained/unrestrained eaters) and neuroticism level (high/low). They completed self-reports (mood, body dissatisfaction level) on a visual analog scale before and after exposure to thin-ideal images, and then their attentional bias for food was measured using eye-movements. Results indicated that after exposure to thin-ideal images, positive affect was more decreased in restrained eaters with high neuroticism compared to other groups and negative affect was increased in all groups except unrestrained eaters with low neuroticism. Also, restrained eaters with high neuroticism showed a heightened vigilance for food. These findings underscore the role of neuroticism in restrained eaters as a moderating factor of thinness fantasy.

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confidence: 99%