UnAdulterated — Children and adults' visual attention to healthy and unhealthy food
| Autor: | Junghans, Astrid F., Hooge, Ignace T C, Maas, Josje, Evers, Catharine, De Ridder, Denise T D, Stress and self-regulation, Helmholtz Institute, Leerstoel Ridder, Leerstoel Pas, Leerstoel Dumoulin, Leerstoel Verstraten, Afd Psychologische functieleer, Experimental Psychology (onderzoeksprogramma PF) |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Stress and self-regulation, Helmholtz Institute, Leerstoel Ridder, Leerstoel Pas, Leerstoel Dumoulin, Leerstoel Verstraten, Afd Psychologische functieleer, Experimental Psychology (onderzoeksprogramma PF) |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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media_common.quotation_subject Temptation 050105 experimental psychology Article Developmental psychology Self-Control 03 medical and health sciences Eating Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Healthy food Visual attention Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Children's eating behavior 030212 general & internal medicine Young adult Self report Child Health behavior media_common 2. Zero hunger Motivation 05 social sciences digestive oral and skin physiology Self-control Unhealthy food Eye movements Clinical Psychology Psychiatry and Mental health Food Self-regulation Female Self Report Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Eating Behaviors Eating Behaviors, 17, 90. Elsevier Limited |
| ISSN: | 1471-0153 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.01.009 |
| Popis: | Objective Visually attending to unhealthy food creates a desire to consume the food. To resist the temptation people have to employ self-regulation strategies, such as visual avoidance. Past research has shown that self-regulatory skills develop throughout childhood and adolescence, suggesting adults' superior self-regulation skills compared to children. Methods This study employed a novel method to investigate self-regulatory skills. Children and adults' initial (bottom-up) and maintained (top-down) visual attention to simultaneously presented healthy and unhealthy food were examined in an eye-tracking paradigm. Results Results showed that both children and adults initially attended most to the unhealthy food. Subsequently, adults self-regulated their visual attention away from the unhealthy food. Despite the children's high self-reported attempts to eat healthily and importance of eating healthily, children did not self-regulate visual attention away from unhealthy food. Children remained influenced by the attention-driven desire to consume the unhealthy food whereas adults visually attended more strongly to the healthy food thereby avoiding the desire to consume the unhealthy option. Conclusions The findings emphasize the necessity of improving children's self-regulatory skills to support their desire to remain healthy and to protect children from the influences of the obesogenic environment. Highlights • Children and adults initially attend visually to unhealthy rather than healthy food. • Adults disengage visual attention away from unhealthy food whereas children do not. • Children want to eat healthily but do not visually disengage from unhealthy food. • Increased attention to unhealthy food may drive children's unhealthy eating. • Initial and retained visual attention can be a measure for self-regulatory capacity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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