Feeling Better Before, Not After: An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Affect Around Exercise in Women with Eating Disorders.

ABSTRACT: Maladaptive exercise (MalE) includes excessive, compulsive, or compensatory exercise and is a common eating-disorder (ED) symptom associated with increased severity, slower rates-of-recovery, and faster rates-of-relapse. Affect-regulation theories posit that MalE functions to reduce high negative affect (NA), although support for the affect-regulation model is mixed. Previous studies have not integrated ecological momentary assessment (EMA) with accelerometry or examined the affect-regulation model in individuals with EDs who frequently engage in MalE. The objective of this study was to examine trajectories of NA and positive affect (PA) through a 7-day EMA study combined with wrist-worn accelerometry in women with EDs (N=84). Piecewise generalized mixed-effects regression models ev

SUBMITTER: Chapa DAN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12668060 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature