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Emotion regulation in disordered eating: psychometric properties of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and clinical severity
- Source :
- Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname, Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Dipòsit Digital de la UB, Universidad de Barcelona, Frontiers in Psychology
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media, 2015.
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Abstract
- Objective: The aims of the study were to 1) validate the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in a sample of Spanish adults with and without eating disorders, and 2) explore the role of emotion regulation difficulties in eating disorders, including its mediating role in the relation between key personality traits and ED severity Methods: 134 patients (121 female, mean age = 29 years) with anorexia nervosa (n = 30), bulimia nervosa (n = 54), binge eating (n = 20), or Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (n = 30) and 74 healthy control participants (51 female, mean age = 21 years) reported on general psychopathology, eating disorder severity, personality traits and difficulties in emotion regulation. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the psychometrics of the DERS in this Spanish sample (Aim 1). Additionally, to examine the role of emotion regulation difficulties in eating disorders (Aim 2), differences in emotion regulation difficulties across eating disorder subgroups were examined and structural equation modeling was used to explore the interrelations among emotion regulation, personality traits, and eating disorder severity. Results: Results support the validity and reliability of the DERS within this Spanish adult sample and suggest that this measure has a similar factor structure in this sample as in the original sample. Moreover, emotion regulation difficulties were found to differ as a function of eating disorder subtype and to mediate the relation between two specific personality traits (i.e., high harm avoidance and low self-directedness) and eating disorder severity. Conclusions: Personality traits of high harm avoidance and low self-directedness may increase vulnerability to eating disorder pathology indirectly, through emotion regulation difficulties.
- Subjects :
- harm avoidance
Vulnerabilitat (Tret de la personalitat)
Emotions
Dones
Behavioral assessment
self-directedness
Anorexia nervosa
Pathological psychology
Self-directedness
difficulties in emotion regulation scale
Psychology
Anàlisi de conducta
General Psychology
Original Research
media_common
Bulimia nervosa
Eating disorder
Personality types
Eating disorders
Vulnerability to psychopathology
eating disorder
Difficulties in emotion regulation scale
Harm avoidance
medicine.symptom
Personalitat
Clinical psychology
Personality
emotion regulation
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
personality types
medicine
Women
Disordered eating
Espanya
vulnerability to psychopathology
Psychiatry
Trastorns de la conducta alimentària
Binge eating
Vulnerability (Personality trait)
Emotion regulation
Emocions
medicine.disease
Psicopatologia
Spain
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname, Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Dipòsit Digital de la UB, Universidad de Barcelona, Frontiers in Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2d72501a6c162cdd2f9f6173e4b6af8b