Video-feedback and personal attribution in anorexic, depressed and normal viewers.
Video-feedback has been shown to be particularly influential in changing bodily awareness and causal attribution by confronting participants with a concrete 'public' self-image. Body-image disturbance and denial are major aspects of patients suffering with anorexia nervosa. It was predicted that video-feedback should alter these attitudes in this group and result in a more realistic self-appraisal. Anorexics respond to video-feedback with a reduction in self-esteem whereas normal controls displayed an increase in self-esteem and depressed patients perceived themselves negatively both before and after video-feedback. It is concluded that video-feedback may prove to be a useful technique in the treatment of body-image disturbance in anorexic patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D001828:Body Image; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005246:Feedback; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012649:Self Concept; D014743:Videotape Recording