Cognitive processing of emotions in anorexia nervosa

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

Sandra Torres (Author) FPCEUP; Marina Prista Guerra (Author) FPCEUP; Leonor Lencastre (Author) FPCEUP; António Roma-Torres (Author) Other; Isabel Brandão (Author) Other; Cristina Queirós (Author) FPCEUP; Filipa Vieira (Author) FPCEUP

Journal

Title: European Eating Disorders Review

Vol. 19 No. 1

Pages: 100-111

ISSN: 1072-4133

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 13 Citations

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 26 Citations

PsycInfo

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Psychology

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-TH6

DOI: 10.1002/erv.1046

Abstract (EN): Objective: This study attempts to explore the cognitive processing of emotions in anorexia nervosa ( AN), based on the study of emotions felt and the assessment of meta-emotional abilities. Method: Eighty patients with AN and a control group of 80 healthy female participants were screened for anxiety, depression and alexithymia and completed an experimental task designed to analyse the emotional experience and meta-emotional abilities. Results: Despite presenting higher levels of alexithymia, participants with AN demonstrated they were able to imagine emotions in hypothetical situations and to identify and label them. The group of patients with AN revealed feeling more intense and internally based negative emotions in comparison with the control group, but this emotional pattern tends to occur in situations associated with food and weight. Conclusions: Findings on meta-emotional abilities suggested no global deficit in emotional processing, but rather, specific sensitivities pertaining to situations relevant to AN. Copyright (C) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: <a href="http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=Alerting&SrcApp=Alerting&DestApp=WOS&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=000288096200004">Acesso à Web of Science</a> <br> <a href="http://www.scopus.com/record/display.url?eid=2-s2.0-79952268438&origin=resultslist">Acesso à Scopus</a>

No. of pages: 12