Perception of Time by Individuals With Eating Disorders
NCT ID: NCT03759444
Last Updated: 2018-11-30
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
60 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2014-05-01
2017-07-30
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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First, it was expected that eating-disordered patients experience time as a rather aversive and unfriendly force marked with chaos and void, in contrast to healthy subjects, who were predicted to treat it as something more friendly, appreciating its subtleties and the significance of the moment (Hypothesis 1).
Moreover, it was expected that individuals with eating disorders would exhibit a more negative temporal orientation, whether past or present, as compared to healthy controls, who would reveal more positive past, present, or future orientations (Hypothesis 2).
Finally, it was predicted that eating disorders moderate the relationship between mood and time perception (Hypothesis 3).
The study encompassed 30 women with eating disorders (19 patients with anorexia nervosa and 11 patients with bulimia nervosa) and 30 age-matched normal healthy controls. The clinical group consisted of patients of the residential eating disorder therapeutic center "Drzewo zycia" in Malawa as well as some outpatient clinics in Poland; some of the patients were not being actively treated at the time of the study. The controls included psychology students from two Polish universities (the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University and the University of Finance and Management, both in Warsaw), as well as researchers and educators who volunteered for the study.
The three measures applied in the study were:
* The Time Metaphors Questionnaire by Sobol-Kwapinska;
* Time Perspective Inventory by Zimbardo (Zimbardo \& Boyd, 1999; see also Zimbardo \& Boyd, 2009);
* The UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL) (Matthews at al.; see also Gorynska, 2005).
Conditions
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Keywords
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Study Design
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RETROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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women with eating disorders
women with eating disorders (age: M = 26.88; SD = 5.82)
The three measures applied in this group were: the Time Metaphors Questionnaire by Sobol-Kwapinska (2007), the Time Perspective Inventory by Zimbardo (1999), and the UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL) by Matthews et al. (1990).
Questionnaires
The three questionnaires applied were: the Time Metaphors Questionnaire by Sobol-Kwapinska, the Time Perspective Inventory by Zimbardo, and the UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL) by Matthews et al.
healthy female controls.
healthy female controls (age: M = 24.27; SD = 6.49)
The three measures applied in this group were: the Time Metaphors Questionnaire by Sobol-Kwapinska (2007), the Time Perspective Inventory by Zimbardo (1999), and the UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL) by Matthews et al. (1990).
Questionnaires
The three questionnaires applied were: the Time Metaphors Questionnaire by Sobol-Kwapinska, the Time Perspective Inventory by Zimbardo, and the UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL) by Matthews et al.
Interventions
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Questionnaires
The three questionnaires applied were: the Time Metaphors Questionnaire by Sobol-Kwapinska, the Time Perspective Inventory by Zimbardo, and the UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL) by Matthews et al.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Age between 18 and 40 years
Exclusion Criteria
* Age below 18 years and above 40 years
18 Years
40 Years
FEMALE
No
Sponsors
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Malgorzata Starzomska
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Malgorzata Starzomska
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigators
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Malgorzata Starzomska, dr
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University
References
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Gorynska E. UMACL Mood Adjective Checklist by G. Matthews, A.G. Chamberlain, D.M. Jones. Pracownia Testow Psychologicznych Polskiego Towarzystwa Psychologicznego, Warszawa, 2005.
Matthews G, Jones DM, Chamberlain AG. Refining the measurement of mood: the UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist. British Journal of Psychology 81(1): 17-42, 1990.
Sobol-Kwapinska M. TMQ Time Metaphor Questionnaire: Manual. Pracownia Testow Psychologicznych PTP, Warszawa, 2008.
Zimbardo P G, Boyd J. The time paradox. PWN, Warszawa, 2009.
Zimbardo P, Boyd J. Putting time in perspective: a valid, reliable individual differences metric. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 77(6): 1271-1288, 1999.
Other Identifiers
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PBF-31/16
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id