Differences in alexithymia, emotional awareness, and facial emotion recognition under conditions of self-focused attention among women with high and low eating disorder symptoms: a 2 x 2 experimental study

Table 1 Effects of eating disorder symptom group, self-focused attention, and their interaction on the e-LEAS and FERT while controlling for the DASS-21-D

Measure	Eating Group		SFA Group		Interaction
	F	p	F	p	F	p
e-LEAS
Total Emotional Awareness	4.59^a	.036	1.32	.255	0.43	.515
Emotional Awareness Percentile	3.97^a	.050	0.95	.332	0.22	.643
Emotional Range	3.49	.066	0.01	.943	0.12	.730
Multi-Level Responses	6.41^a	.013	0.01	.911	0.26	.613
Total Word Count	1.53	.219	0.01	.919	0.17	.685
Self Emotional Awareness	5.17^a	.026	5.84^b	.019	0.53	.468
Self Word Count	0.76	.387	0.14	.713	0.24	.626
Other Emotional Awareness	2.49	.119	0.24	.624	0.26	.615
Other Word Count	2.69	.105	0.46	.498	0.08	.773
FERT
Total % Accurate	0.65	.422	2.08	.153	0.07	.790
Total Response Time (ms)	0.05	.882	1.85	.178	1.23	.271
Negative Emotions % Accurate	0.40	.531	2.17	.145	0.14	.706
Negative Emotions Response Time (ms)	0.14	.706	4.01^b	.049	0.02	.904
Positive Emotions % Accurate	0.38	.540	1.41	.239	1.20	.278
Positive Emotions Response Time (ms)	0.61	.437	1.71	.196	0.02	.888

Note. Eating Group (High-EAT versus Low-EAT); SFA Group (SFA versus n-SFA); e-LEAS = The Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale – Short Version (electronic scoring); FERT = Facial Expression Recognition Task; ^aHigh-EAT group scored lower; ^bSFA group scored lower

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