This study examined implicit attitudes towards different eating disorder (ED) relevant stimuli— emaciation, hard-exercise, the self, and eating related stimuli—and their relationship with explicit ED symptoms in two symptomatic samples of college-aged women. Study 1 found that positive implicit attitudes towards eating and self-relevant images were associated with greater state body image satisfaction and self-esteem and with less ED-related intentions. Study 2 found that positive implicit attitudes towards eating and self-relevant images were associated with less trait global ED psychopathology and distress and greater self-esteem. Overall, positive implicit evaluations of eating and self-related stimuli were negatively associated with ED symptoms and related psychopathology and positively related to self-esteem. However, implicit attitudes towards emaciation and hard exercise were not associated with explicit ED symptoms in either sample. These findings suggest that implicit attitudes towards eating and self-related stimuli, in particular, may be viable targets for reconditioning in novel treatment paradigms such as therapeutic evaluative conditioning interventions.

这项研究在两个有症状的大学生中，研究了对不同饮食失调（ED）相关刺激（消瘦，锻炼，自我和饮食相关刺激）的内隐态度，以及它们与明确的ED症状的关系。研究1发现，对饮食和自我相关图像的积极内隐态度与更高的状态身体图像满意度和自尊以及与ED相关的意图较少相关。研究2发现，对饮食和自我相关图像的积极内在态度与较少的全球性ED精神病学特征和苦恼以及较高的自尊相关。总体而言，饮食和自我相关刺激的积极内隐评估与ED症状和相关心理病理呈负相关，与自尊呈正相关。然而，在这两个样本中，对消瘦和努力锻炼的内隐态度均与明确的ED症状无关。这些发现表明，对饮食和自我相关刺激的内隐态度尤其可能是在新的治疗范式（例如治疗性评估条件干预）中进行适应的可行目标。