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Emotion regulation across eating pathology: A meta-analysis

Prefit, Alice-Beatrice, Cândea, Diana Mirela, Szentagotai-Tătar, Aurora·2019·Appetite

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The goal of this meta-analysis was to examine the associations between specific emotion regulation abilities (emotional awareness, emotional clarity) and strategies (acceptance of emotions, reappraisal, problem-solving, rumination, avoidance of emotions, and suppression), and eating pathology. A total of 96 studies and 239 effect sizes were included in the analysis. Relations between global and specific emotion regulation abilities and strategies and eating disorders and eating-related symptoms were examined. Results indicated medium-to-large effect sizes for the associations between adaptive emotion regulation and eating disorder and eating-related symptoms, and medium-to-large effect sizes for the associations between maladaptive emotion regulation and eating disorders and eating-related symptoms. In terms of specific emotion regulation strategies, large magnitude of associations were identified for the relations between lack of emotional awareness, clarity, acceptance, reappraisal, problem-solving, and eating disorders. Rumination, avoidance of emotions, and suppression also showed large associations with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Overall, emotion regulation did not differ across eating disorders, a finding supporting the transdiagnostic character of emotion regulation problems in eating pathology. These findings have important theoretical and practical implications for prevention and intervention programs.

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  • Broader measures of emotion regulation difficulties and abilities show consistent associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms.

    “Broader measures of emotion regulation, such as difficulties (Prefit et al., 2019; Seligowski et al., 2015) and abilities (Compas et al., 2017), have also shown consistent associations with internalizing and externalizing symptoms.”
  • Reappraisal is negatively associated with psychopathology.

    “suppression and rumination have been positively associated (Aldao, Nolen-Hoeksema, & Schweizer, 2010; Compas et al., 2017; Hu et al., 2014; Prefit, Candea, & Szentagotai-Tatar, 2019; Seligowski, Lee, Bardeen, & Orcutt, 2015), and reappraisal has been negatively associated (Aldao et al., 2010; Hu et al., 2014; Prefit et al., 2019; but see Seligowski et al., 2015) with psychopathology.”

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Authors
Prefit, A.-B., Cândea, D. M., & Szentagotai-Tătar, A.
Affiliations
Babeș-Bolyai University (RO)
Corresponding author
Szentagotai-Tătar, Aurora
Venue
Appetite
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-12
Volume
143
Pages
104438
ISSN
0195-6663 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2970290813
Cited by
341
References
128
Citations by year
2026: 43 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 64 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 2
FWCI
5.04
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Appetite (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
emotion regulation, eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, emotional awareness, emotional clarity, acceptance, cognitive reappraisal, rumination, emotional suppression, emotion avoidance, problem solving, transdiagnostic mechanisms, maladaptive emotion regulation
MeSH terms
Rumination, Cognitive, Emotional Regulation, Adolescent, Adult, Affective Symptoms, Anorexia Nervosa, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Problem Solving, Bulimia Nervosa, Young Adult

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