Use of a Modified Stroop Task to Examine Appearance-Schematic Information Processing in College Women
Cognitive Therapy and ResearchPublished 1 April 1998
Andrew S. Labarge, Thomas F. Cash, Timothy A. Brown
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Abstract
A computerized Stroop color-naming task was usedto compare the information processing of 55appearance-schematic and 50 appearance-aschematic women,based on their scores on the Appearance SchemasInventory (ASI). Participants color-named appearancewords (e.g., OVERWEIGHT, LIPSTICK ) and nonappearancewords (e.g., OBNOXIOUS, BRIDEGROOM ) after exposure toeither a neutral condition or a "priming" condition that emphasized their bodysize/appearance. Primed schematic persons exhibitedgreater Stroop interference in color-naming appearanceversus nonappearance words compared to nonprimedschematics and both primed and nonprimed aschematics. Onan incidental recall task, a modest but significantpositive correlation was observed between ASI scores andthe percentage of appearance words among words subsequently recalled. These and other findingsprovide evidence of the construct validity of the ASI ina nonclinical population and offer a foundation on whichto advance the study of cognitive models of body image and clinical body-imagedisturbances.
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