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Emotion regulation deficits in eating disorders: a marker of eating pathology or general psychopathology?

Svaldi, Jennifer, Griepenstroh, Julia, Tuschen-Caffier, Brunna, Ehring, Thomas·2012·Psychiatry Research

Abstract

Preliminary evidence indicates that individuals with eating disorders (ED) show emotion regulation (ER) difficulties. However, it is yet unclear whether different types of ED differ in their ER profile and whether certain ER difficulties are specific for ED or rather a transdiagnostic factor. Twenty women with anorexia nervosa (AN), 18 with bulimia nervosa (BN), 25 with binge eating disorder (BED), 15 with borderline personality disorder (BPD), 16 with major depressive disorder (MDD) and 42 female healthy controls (HC) were administered the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Inventory of Cognitive Affect Regulation Strategies, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and the Affect Intensity Measure. The ED groups reported significantly higher levels of emotion intensity, lower acceptance of emotions, less emotional awareness and clarity, more self-reported ER problems as well as decreased use of functional and increased use of dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies when compared to HC. No significant differences between the ED groups emerged for most ER variables. However, there were indications that the BED group may show a slightly more adaptive pattern of ER than the two other ED groups. As a whole, all clinical groups performed very similar on most ER variables and reported more difficulties regulating their emotions than HC. The findings suggest that ER difficulties are not linked to a particular diagnostic category. Instead, ER difficulties appear to be a transdiagnostic risk and/or maintenance factor rather than being disorder-specific.

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Authors
Svaldi, J., Griepenstroh, J., Tuschen-Caffier, B., & Ehring, T.
Affiliations
  • University of Freiburg (DE)
  • University of Amsterdam (NL)
Corresponding author
Svaldi, Jennifer
Venue
Psychiatry Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2012-05
Volume
197
Issue
1-2
Pages
103-111
ISSN
0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2165797531
Cited by
408
References
106
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FWCI
27.34
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
emotion regulation, eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, borderline personality disorder, major depressive disorder, transdiagnostic factors, emotion regulation strategies, emotional intensity, emotional awareness
MeSH terms
Adult, Affective Symptoms, Analysis of Variance, Anorexia Nervosa, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Awareness, Borderline Personality Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Surveys and Questionnaires, Statistics as Topic, Bulimia Nervosa, Young Adult, Binge-Eating Disorder

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