کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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4318111 | 1290636 | 2007 | 8 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
![عکس صفحه اول مقاله: Do overweight youngsters like food more than lean peers? Assessing their implicit attitudes with a personalized Implicit Association Task Do overweight youngsters like food more than lean peers? Assessing their implicit attitudes with a personalized Implicit Association Task](/preview/png/4318111.png)
It has been theorized that overweight and obesity are related with a heightened (unhealthy) food preference. Until now both self-reports and indirect attitude measures offer little support for this hypothesis. Using a personalized version of the Implicit Association Task [IAT; Greenwald, A. G., McGhee, D. E., & Schwartz, J. L. (1998). Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The Implicit Association Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1464–1480], this study investigated (1) whether overweight youngsters (n = 40) implicitly prefer palatable food to an attractive non-food category such as hobbies and (2) whether they implicitly prefer unhealthy palatable food to healthy palatable food, compared to a matched group of lean controls (n = 40). Further, it was examined whether these implicit attitudes correlated with self-reported food and hobby attitudes. The results revealed no effect for food versus hobbies. Both groups implicitly preferred healthy to unhealthy food. Positive correlations between implicit and self-reported attitudes were only found for hobbies. Several interpretations of these findings are discussed.
Journal: Food Quality and Preference - Volume 18, Issue 8, December 2007, Pages 1077–1084