What about males? Exploring sex differences in the relationship between emotion difficulties and eating disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

While eating disorders (EDs) are more commonly diagnosed in females, there is growing awareness that men also experience EDs and may do so in a different way. Difficulties with emotion processing and emotion regulation are believed to be important in EDs, but as studies have involved predominantly female samples, it is unclear whether this is also true for males.

Methods

In a sample of 1604 participants (n = 631 males), we assessed emotion processing and emotion regulation in males with EDs (n = 109) and compared results to both females with EDs (n = 220) and males from the general population (n = 522). We also looked at whether emotion processing and emotion regulation difficulties predicted various aspects of eating psychopathology and whether this was moderated

SUBMITTER: Vuillier L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9749243 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature