Author : Cidu00e1lia Alves
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ISBN 13 :
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Book Synopsis TRAUMA, EMOTION REGULATION DIFFICULTIES AND BINGE EATING by : Cidu00e1lia Alves
Download or read book TRAUMA, EMOTION REGULATION DIFFICULTIES AND BINGE EATING written by Cidu00e1lia Alves and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background and Aims:The growing research interest in binge eating symptoms is associated to its high comorbidity with obesity and psychiatric symptoms, its related health complications and growing prevalence rates. As a multidetermined phenomenon, it is crucial to continue exploring its correlates, particularly in the general population (not only in clinical samples). Our main goals are: to explore if traumatic experiences ocurrence and emotional regulation difficulties are associated with (and predict) binge eating symptoms; to verify if emotional regulation difficulties mediate the relation between having experienced traumatic experiences and binge eating symptoms. Methods: 421 university students and adults from the general population (women, n = 300, 71,3%) answered a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Traumatic Events Checklist (TEC), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and the Binge Eating Scale (BES).Results: 5.9% of the sample presented mild to moderate binge eating symptoms and 2.6% severe binge eating symptoms, similar values to those found in Portuguese studies using the BES. Binge eating total score positively correlated with family trauma and traumatic experiences total score (TEC). It also positively correlated with impulses, non-acceptance, objetives, strategies and lack of emotional clarity (DERS), and with Body Mass Index (BMI).The binge eating total score, reported weight at childhood, BMI, traumatic experiences total score and strategies (DERS) significantly predicted binge eating total score. We did not found any mediation effect.Conclusions: These results show the importance of traumatic life experiences and of emotional regulation difficulties as correlates of binge eating symptoms, in a sample of university students and people from the general population.