Emotion recognition, alexithymia, empathy, and emotion regulation in women with anorexia nervosa.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is associated with challenges in recognizing, understanding, and interpreting one's own and other's emotional states, feelings, and thoughts. It is unknown whether difficulties in emotion processing occur independently of common comorbid symptoms of AN and predict acute eating disorder characteristics. We aimed to examine emotion recognition, alexithymia, emotion regulation, and empathy in individuals with AN and to assess whether these predict eating disorder symptoms independently from comorbid symptoms.

Methods

Participants included 42 women with AN and 40 healthy control (HC) women between 18-30 years. Basic and complex emotion recognition was assessed with face photos and video clips. Alexithymia, empathy, emotion regulation, and comorbid s

SUBMITTER: Saure E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9803740 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature