Emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating: Examining the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severity
Objective: The aims of the study were to 1) validate the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in a sample of Spanish adults with and without eating disorders, and 2) explore the role of emotion regulation difficulties in eating disorders, including its mediating role in the relation betwe...
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| author | Ines eWolz Ines eWolz Ines eWolz Zaida eAgüera Zaida eAgüera Roser eGranero Roser eGranero Susana eJiménez-Murcia Susana eJiménez-Murcia Susana eJiménez-Murcia Kim eGratz Jose M Menchon Jose M Menchon Fernando eFernandez-Aranda Fernando eFernandez-Aranda Fernando eFernandez-Aranda |
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| description | Objective: The aims of the study were to 1) validate the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in a sample of Spanish adults with and without eating disorders, and 2) explore the role of emotion regulation difficulties in eating disorders, including its mediating role in the relation between key personality traits and ED severity Methods: 134 patients (121 female, mean age = 29 years) with anorexia nervosa (n = 30), bulimia nervosa (n = 54), binge eating (n = 20), or Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (n = 30) and 74 healthy control participants (51 female, mean age = 21 years) reported on general psychopathology, eating disorder severity, personality traits and difficulties in emotion regulation. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the psychometrics of the DERS in this Spanish sample (Aim 1). Additionally, to examine the role of emotion regulation difficulties in eating disorders (Aim 2), differences in emotion regulation difficulties across eating disorder subgroups were examined and structural equation modeling was used to explore the interrelations among emotion regulation, personality traits, and eating disorder severity. Results: Results support the validity and reliability of the DERS within this Spanish adult sample and suggest that this measure has a similar factor structure in this sample as in the original sample. Moreover, emotion regulation difficulties were found to differ as a function of eating disorder subtype and to mediate the relation between two specific personality traits (i.e., high harm avoidance and low self-directedness) and eating disorder severity. Conclusions: Personality traits of high harm avoidance and low self-directedness may increase vulnerability to eating disorder pathology indirectly, through emotion regulation difficulties. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-09404037faeb45098dc2d98258a1991d2022-12-21T19:14:18ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782015-06-01610.3389/fpsyg.2015.00907145273Emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating: Examining the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severityInes eWolz0Ines eWolz1Ines eWolz2Zaida eAgüera3Zaida eAgüera4Roser eGranero5Roser eGranero6Susana eJiménez-Murcia7Susana eJiménez-Murcia8Susana eJiménez-Murcia9Kim eGratz10Jose M Menchon11Jose M Menchon12Fernando eFernandez-Aranda13Fernando eFernandez-Aranda14Fernando eFernandez-Aranda15University Hospital of BellvitgeUniversidad de BarcelonaCiber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y NutriciónUniversity Hospital of BellvitgeCiber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y NutriciónCiber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y NutriciónUniversity Autònoma of BarcelonaUniversity Hospital of BellvitgeUniversidad de BarcelonaCiber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y NutriciónUniversity of Mississippi Medical CenterUniversity Hospital of BellvitgeUniversidad de BarcelonaUniversity Hospital of BellvitgeUniversidad de BarcelonaCiber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y NutriciónObjective: The aims of the study were to 1) validate the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in a sample of Spanish adults with and without eating disorders, and 2) explore the role of emotion regulation difficulties in eating disorders, including its mediating role in the relation between key personality traits and ED severity Methods: 134 patients (121 female, mean age = 29 years) with anorexia nervosa (n = 30), bulimia nervosa (n = 54), binge eating (n = 20), or Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (n = 30) and 74 healthy control participants (51 female, mean age = 21 years) reported on general psychopathology, eating disorder severity, personality traits and difficulties in emotion regulation. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the psychometrics of the DERS in this Spanish sample (Aim 1). Additionally, to examine the role of emotion regulation difficulties in eating disorders (Aim 2), differences in emotion regulation difficulties across eating disorder subgroups were examined and structural equation modeling was used to explore the interrelations among emotion regulation, personality traits, and eating disorder severity. Results: Results support the validity and reliability of the DERS within this Spanish adult sample and suggest that this measure has a similar factor structure in this sample as in the original sample. Moreover, emotion regulation difficulties were found to differ as a function of eating disorder subtype and to mediate the relation between two specific personality traits (i.e., high harm avoidance and low self-directedness) and eating disorder severity. Conclusions: Personality traits of high harm avoidance and low self-directedness may increase vulnerability to eating disorder pathology indirectly, through emotion regulation difficulties.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00907/fullEmotion RegulationEating Disorderharm avoidanceSelf-directednessDifficulties in emotion regulation scalevulnerability to psychopathology |
| spellingShingle | Ines eWolz Ines eWolz Ines eWolz Zaida eAgüera Zaida eAgüera Roser eGranero Roser eGranero Susana eJiménez-Murcia Susana eJiménez-Murcia Susana eJiménez-Murcia Kim eGratz Jose M Menchon Jose M Menchon Fernando eFernandez-Aranda Fernando eFernandez-Aranda Fernando eFernandez-Aranda Emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating: Examining the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severity Frontiers in Psychology Emotion Regulation Eating Disorder harm avoidance Self-directedness Difficulties in emotion regulation scale vulnerability to psychopathology |
| title | Emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating: Examining the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severity |
| title_full | Emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating: Examining the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severity |
| title_fullStr | Emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating: Examining the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating: Examining the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severity |
| title_short | Emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating: Examining the psychometric properties of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale among Spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severity |
| title_sort | emotion regulation difficulties in disordered eating examining the psychometric properties of the difficulties in emotion regulation scale among spanish adults and its interrelations with personality and eating disorder severity |
| topic | Emotion Regulation Eating Disorder harm avoidance Self-directedness Difficulties in emotion regulation scale vulnerability to psychopathology |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00907/full |
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