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Revista Mexicana de Trastornos Alimentarios 2025; 15 (1)

Emotion regulation difficulties, body and appearance related self-conscious emotions and eating disorders in a sample of adult women

Mendia J, Pascual A, Conejero S, Mayordomo S, Amutio A

Language: English
References: 53
Page: 77-89
PDF size: 260.40 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Emotional variables play a fundamental role in Eating Disorders (ED). However, there are still certain variables that have not received sufficient attention. This cross-sectional study aims to: 1) analyze the role of emotion regulation difficulties, and body and appearance-related self-conscious emotions in ED; 2) study the predictive power of emotional variables and, 3) explore the differences between types of ED in the aforementioned variables. Participants were 767 women aged between 18 and 50 years who had a diagnosis of ED, were at-risk, or healthy. The ED group, followed by the at-risk and healthy-control groups, scored higher on emotion regulation difficulties, body shame, body guilt, and lower on hubristic body pride. Specifically, emotion regulation difficulties and body shame were the two variables most predictive of ED. Likewise, the anorexia nervosa group scored, higher than the bulimia nervosa group on emotional inattention and, also higher than the other specified feeding and eating disorder group on emotional regulation difficulties and its dimension “emotional confusion” and “emotional inattention”. These findings evidence the important role of emotion regulation difficulties and body shame in ED and highlight the need to work on these variables in prevention and intervention programs.


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