Associations of food addiction and nonsuicidal self‐injury among women with an eating disorder: A common strategy for regulating emotions?
Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between lifetime nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), emotion regulation, and food addiction (FA) in women (n = 220) with eating disorders (ED) compared with (n = 121) healthy controls (HC). METHOD: Participants were assessed via face-to-face interviews for ED diagnosis and lifetime NSSI. FA was assessed with Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 and emotion regulation using the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). RESULTS: The prevalence of FA was significantly higher among women with an ED when compared with HC (75.9% vs. 4.1%, p < 0.001). Similarly, subjects presenting FA showed a high prevalence of lifetime NSSI, in both ED and HC (40.7% and 60.0%, respectively). Our predictive model revealed FA and DERS total scores as indicators of the presence of lifetime NSSI independent of group assignment, ED diagnosis, and age. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest a shared aetiology between ED, NSSI, and FA, explained possibly in part by emotion-regulation deficits.
Source: European Eating Disorders Review
DOI: 10.1002/erv.2646
Institutions: University of Michigan, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Bellvitge University Hospital, Institut d'Investigació Biomédica de Bellvitge, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, University of Antwerp, KU Leuven, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funders: Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, Plan Nacional sobre Drogas, Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, European Regional Development Fund, European Social Fund
Awards: G1173233191, G1223212536, G1427517874, G1979329607, G2024946773, G2377181310, G253245450, G2623028129, G3559709381, G4840285595, Neurocognición y regulación emocional en condiciones extremas de peso: Estudio de la actividad cerebral y cambios asociados a una intervención basada en video juego terapéutico, G6085964217, G6401792290, G6705583136, G6818010579, G7327133558, Adicción a la Comida en Obesidad y Trastornos Alimentarios relacionados: Sustratos neurobiológicos y clínicos
OpenAlex ID: W2898065280