A daily diary study of emotion regulation as a moderator of negative affect-binge eating associations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While negative affect (NA) typically increases risk for binge eating, the ultimate impact of NA may depend on a person's ability to regulate their emotions. In this daily, longitudinal study, we examined whether emotion regulation (ER) modified the strength of NA-dysregulated eating associations.

Methods

Women (N = 311) from the Michigan State University Twin Registry first reported dimensional binge eating symptoms and broad ER difficulties (e.g., limited emotional awareness, difficulty controlling emotional impulses). Participants then rated use of adaptive (cognitive reappraisal, social sharing, situation modification, and acceptance) and maladaptive (rumination, expressive suppression, and self-criticism) ER strategies, emotional eating (EE), objective binge e

SUBMITTER: Mikhail ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9529946 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature