Repeated exposure to body-related memories in women with high body-related self-disgust: Impact on disgust, avoidance, and acceptance

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von Spreckelsen, Paula [1 ]
Wessel, Ineke [1 ]
Glashouwer, Klaske A. [1 ,2 ]
Jong, Peter J. de [1 ]
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[1] Univ Groningen, Dept Psychol, Expertise Grp Clin Psychol & Expt Psychopathol, Groningen, Netherlands
[2] Accare Child & Adolescent Psychiat, Dept Eating Disorders, Groningen, Netherlands
关键词
Self-disgust; Body image; Disgust avoidance; Repeated exposure; Autobiographical memory; Repeated exposure to body-related memories in women with high body-related self-disgust: impact on disgust; Avoidance; And acceptance; THREAT-RELEVANT STIMULI; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; EMOTION REGULATION; ANOREXIA-NERVOSA; EATING-DISORDERS; FEAR; DISSATISFACTION; CONTAMINATION; HABITUATION; INSTRUMENT;
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10.1016/j.brat.2024.104496
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B849 [应用心理学];
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040203 ;
摘要
Disgust-based body image concerns can bias autobiographical memory towards the recall and avoidant processing of disgust-related memories of the own body. Repeated exposure to such memories may help breaking avoidance and promote the habituation of disgust, thereby lowering body concerns. Using a pre-post withinparticipant experimental design, we tested if repeatedly exposing women with high self-disgust (N = 61) to disgust-focused body memories vs. neutral memories led to changes in disgust, body acceptance, and reactive avoidance. Contrary to expectations, state disgust towards the body itself only decreased following exposure to neutral memories. Yet, disgust elicited by body-related memories decreased following both repeated exposure to neutral and body memories. Although acceptance was not found to significantly change in either exposure session, pre-post decreases in state disgust were associated with increases in acceptance following the disgustfocused exposure. In contrast to expectations, reactive avoidance increased from pre to post in the disgustfocused exposure. Overall, the results indicate that repeated exposure to disgust-focused body memories may help reduce disgust elicited by these memories and promote body acceptance. Yet, the effect of this repeated exposure to body memories did not extend to changing state disgust towards the body, possibly due to reactive avoidance.
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