المؤلفون: Sala, Margaret¹ margarita.sala@yu.edu, Evangelista, Brielle², Lessard, Laura², Pacanowski, Carly R.²

المصدر: International Journal of Health, Wellness & Society. Jun2022, Vol. 12 Issue 1, p69-77. 9p.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *COMPULSIVE eating, *BINGE-eating disorder, *MINDFULNESS, *SYMPTOMS, *BULIMIA

مستخلص: Objectives: Mindfulness-based treatments for binge eating could be enhanced by further understanding the relationship between mindfulness and binge eating. Higher levels of trait mindfulness are associated with lower binge eating symptoms, but it is currently unclear from the literature which mindfulness facets are most relevant to binge eating symptoms. The goal of the current study was to examine the relations between mindfulness, its five facets, and binge eating symptoms. Methods: Female college students (N = 52) completed the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire and the Binge Eating Scale questionnaires as part of the baseline assessment of a randomized controlled trial. Results: Higher levels of acting with awareness (r = -.36, p < .01), non-judgment (r = -.44, p < .01), and nonreactivity (r = -.47, p < .01) were correlated with lower levels of binge eating symptoms. The observing and describing facets were not significantly correlated with binge eating symptoms. Only non-reactivity was uniquely correlated with binge eating (i.e., over and above the other five-facets) (semi-part r = -.24, p = .05). Conclusions: Findings from the current study suggest that trait mindfulness has medium-to-large size associations with binge eating symptoms. Only the acting with awareness, non-judgment, and non-reactivity facets are significantly correlated with binge eating. Furthermore, the non-reactivity facet of mindfulness appears to be most relevant to binge eating. Notably, given a small non-clinical sample, this research should be replicated in a larger clinical sample. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

المؤلفون: Reader, Shane W.¹ shane@shanereader.com, Moreno, Miguel A.¹

المصدر: Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Jan2018, Vol. 8 Issue 1, p23-33. 11p.

مصطلحات موضوعية: *CALORIC content of foods, *AVERSION, *COMPULSIVE eating, *SUBSTANCE abuse, *NUTRITIONAL value, *PROTEIN bars

مستخلص: Implicit Association Tests (IATs) regarding food attitudes reveal a consistent unpleasant bias against obesogenic foods in contrast to individuals' innate, biologically-driven preference toward high calorie food items. However, recent IAT research in this domain has stumbled in selecting stimuli with ecological validity, often choosing items that participants may not perceive as representative of their nutritional value and using lexical stimuli that fail to capture the full appetitive salience of the target constructs or align with contemporaneous IAT research. In study one, we deployed a lexical IAT using stimuli chosen for their perceived caloric value rather than their objective nutritional content, finding a strong, unpleasant implicit bias toward obesogenic food regardless of participant BMI. In study two, we translated the lexical items of our IAT into photographs to produce a visual IAT that better approximates the appetitive salience of the target constructs. Participants continued to demonstrate a robust distaste toward obesogenic foods on the visual IAT, regardless of appetitive factors including weight status, hunger, and predilection toward food addiction. This reliable implicit bias, orthogonal to behavior, is consistent with IAT studies regarding substances of abuse, including tobacco and alcohol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]