Longitudinal associations between emotion regulation skills, negative affect, and eating disorder symptoms in a clinical sample of individuals with binge eating.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Although deficits in emotion regulation have been implicated in the maintenance of binge eating, few prospective studies have examined longitudinal associations between emotion regulation and eating disorder symptoms, which are needed to test these theoretical models.

Method

Using a naturalistic design, the current study utilized longitudinal multilevel analyses to examine whether improvements in emotion regulation during treatment are associated with decreased binge eating frequency and eating disorder cognitions in a heterogeneous sample of adults with binge eating (N = 97). Analyses also accounted for between- and within-person differences in negative affect to inform specific targets for intervention.

Results

Significant within-person associations betwee

SUBMITTER: Bodell LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7043891 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature