Simone Munsch, Nadine Messerli-Bürgy, Andrea H Meyer, Nadine Humbel, Kathrin Schopf, Andrea Wyssen, Felicitas Forrer, Esther Biedert, Julia Lennertz, Stephan Trier, Bettina Isenschmid, Gabriella Milos, Malte Claussen, Katherina Whinyates, Dirk Adolph, Jürgen Margraf, Hans-Jörg Assion, Tobias Teismann, Bianca Ueberberg, Georg Juckel, Judith Müller, Benedikt Klauke, Silvia Schneider
This study examined the consequences of media exposure to thin ideals compared to pictures of landscapes in healthy young women and women with eating and mixed mental disorders and investigated whether appearance-related cognitive factors and cognitive distortions moderate the effects. Two hundred seventy-five women in a multisite laboratory trial (174 in- or outpatients and 101 healthy women; M age 22.87 years, SD = 3.94) were exposed to either thin ideals or to landscape pictures and guided through a vivid imagery of these pictures thereafter...
July 2021: Journal of Abnormal Psychology