Emotion Regulation, Eating Psychopathology, and Putative Transdiagnostic Psychological Processes: Findings from an Exploratory Network Analysis in a College Sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Considering the prevalence of ED-related prodromal symptoms among higher education students (making them a population at risk for developing EDs), the main goals of this study were to conduct a network analysis in a college sample and to explore multivariate dependencies between a selection of empirically informed variables of interest to eating psychopathology, namely difficulties in emotion regulation and psychological processes (e.g., interoceptive awareness, self-compassion, self-criticism, mindfulness, and experiential avoidance).

Methods

The sample included 294 college students (M_age = 21.4, SD = 5.0; M_BMI = 22.4, SD = 3.7). A Gaussian graphical network model was estimated to visualize interactions among the s

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues TF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11510149 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature