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Self-reported emotion regulation difficulties are associated with mood but not with the biological stress response to thin ideal exposure

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Humbel, Nadine, Messerli-Bürgy, Nadine, Schuck, Kathrin, Wyssen, Andrea, Garcia-Burgos, David, Biedert, Esther, Lennertz, Julia, Meyer, Andrea H. +15 more·2018·PLOS ONE

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Difficulties in emotion regulation have been related to psychological and physiological stress responses such as lower mood and lower parasympathetic activation (HF-HRV) under resting condition, but evidence on the potential link to the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis functioning and to physiological stress responses during a stress task is still scarce. The aim of the study was to investigate stress responses in young women when confronted to a daily stressor such as exposure to thin ideals and to understand the role of correlates of self-reported trait-like emotion regulation difficulties (ERD). METHODS: Heart rate variability (HRV) and salivary cortisol data were collected in a sample of 273 young women aged 18-35 with and without mental disorders during a vivid imagination of thin ideals (experimental condition) or landscapes (control condition). Changes in mood states were measured on a visual analogue scale (0-100). Correlates of trait-like ERD were self-reported using the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). RESULTS: Participants with higher ERD showed a stronger decline in self-reported mood after vivid imagination of thin ideals compared to participants with lower ERD in the experimental condition but also a stronger increase of positive mood with increasing ERD in the control condition. ERD were not related to baseline HF-HRV or baseline salivary cortisol levels nor to any physiological response during and after the imagination of thin ideals. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The results corroborate the role of ERD regarding the immediate psychological impact of daily stressors. Exposition to daily stressors in the laboratory results in discrepant psychological and physiological reactivity. Future studies should investigate under what conditions the complex interrelations between immediate and long-term ERD and biological activation are amenable to assessment in a laboratory setting. The additive effects of multiple exposition to stressors, such as thin ideals in daily life, also need to be addressed.

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Humbel, N., Messerli-Bürgy, N., Schuck, K., Wyssen, A., Garcia-Burgos, D., Biedert, E., Lennertz, J., Meyer, A. H., Whinyates, K., Isenschmid, B., Milos, G., Trier, S., Adolph, D., Cwik, J., Margraf, J., Assion, H.-J., Teismann, T., Ueberberg, B., Juckel, G., Müller, J., Klauke, B., Schneider, S., & Munsch, S.
Affiliations
  • University of Fribourg (CH)
  • Ruhr University Bochum (DE)
  • Klinik Schützen Rheinfelden (CH)
  • University Hospital Zurich (CH)
  • LWL-Universitätsklinikum Bochum (DE)
Corresponding author
Munsch, Simone
Venue
PLOS ONE
Published
2018-06-27
Volume
13
Issue
6
Pages
e0199769
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2810011308
Cited by
19
References
67
Citations by year
2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3
FWCI
1.87
Type
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Language
en
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  • Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (149416, 100013)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
emotional dysregulation, thin ideal, body image, stress response, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, salivary cortisol, heart rate variability, mood, young women, mental illness, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, daily hassles
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Affect, Emotions, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Imagination, Saliva, Stress, Physiological, Stress, Psychological, Young Adult, Ideal Body Weight, Self Report

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