Atención selectiva emocional en mujeres con obesidad y normopesas

• Beatriz García Rodríguez ^[1] ; Heiner Ellgring ^[3] ; Carmen Gómez Candela ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

     Madrid, España

     
  2. [2] Hospital Universitario La Paz

     Hospital Universitario La Paz

     Madrid, España

     
  3. [3] Julius Maximilian Universität, Würzburg, Alemania

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• Localización: Ansiedad y estrés, ISSN 1134-7937, Vol. 16, Nº 2-3, 2010, págs. 227-236
• Idioma: español
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  • Emotional selective attention in obese and normal weight females
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  • español

    El propósito de este trabajo ha sido investigar el estilo de procesamiento emocional en mujeres obesas y normopesas. Se ha evaluado a 16 mujeres con obesidad y 16 normopesas en una tarea de memoria implícita de compleción de palabras. La tarea contenía palabras emocionales negativas, neutras y neutras acompañadas de un sonido (750 Hz) con el objetivo de introducir una señal distractora adicional. En la fase de estudio, las participantes tuvieron que valorar como agradable o desagradable el significado de cada palabra. En la fase de prueba, las pacientes obesas completaron antes las palabras emocionales. Por el contrario, fueron más lentas que el grupo control en completar las palabras neutras con sonido. Los resultados muestran una tendencia de las pacientes obesas al procesamiento automático e involuntario de la información emocional con valencia negativa y sesgos atencionales hacia información potencialmente amenazante. Este trabajo muestra la importancia de la atención y la memoria implícita en el procesamiento de información emocional en pacientes con obesidad.

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    The aim of the current study was to investigate the emotional processing style in women of obese and normal weight. In an implicit memory task, 16 obese and 16 normal weight females were assessed using a word completion task. The task involved negative emotional, neutral and neutral with sound (750 Hz) words in order to have an additional distracting signal. In the study phase, participants had to rate how agreeable or disagreeable they regarded each word. In the test phase, obese patients completed emotional words faster. On the contrary, they were slower than controls in completing the neutral words with sound. Results show a tendency in obese women towards automatic and involuntary processing of emotional information with negative valence as well as an attentional bias for threat-related information. This work reveals the differential influence of attention and implicit memory in the processing of emotional information in obese patients.

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