ArticleJournal of psychiatric research2015
Initial test of an emotional avoidance model of restriction in anorexia nervosa using ecological momentary assessment.
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- Emotion Dynamics and Emotion Regulation in Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Ecological Momentary Assessment of Diet: Implications and Perspectives for Nutritional Epidemiology.Nutrients · 2019Pooled it
- Affective-touch experiences and interpersonal space in anorexia nervosa.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- Bidirectional temporal relationships between emotional state and eating across eating disorders: a network approach.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Does Evidence Support an Emotion Regulation Model of Anorexia Nervosa? A Systematic Review of Over a Decade of Research.Clinical psychology : a publication of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2025Article
- Emotional food craving across the eating disorder spectrum: an ecological momentary assessment study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- Changes in affect longitudinally mediate associations between emotion regulation strategy use and disordered eating.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- An Intensive time series investigation of the relationships across eating disorder-specific fear responses and behavior urges in partially remitted anorexia nervosa.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Article
- Associations between mealtime anxiety and food intake in anorexia nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- State body dissatisfaction predicts momentary positive and negative affect but not weight control behaviors: an ecological momentary assessment study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- The costs of over-control in anorexia nervosa: evidence from fMRI and ecological momentary assessment.Translational psychiatry · 2021Article
- Affect and engagement in healthy and unhealthy weight control behaviors in college women: An ecological momentary assessment study.Eating behaviors · 2021Article
- Momentary Analysis of Tinnitus: Considering the Patient.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2021Article
- Affect Dysregulation in Context: Implications and Future Directions of Experience Sampling Research on Affect Regulation Models of Loss of Control Eating.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Body shape in inpatients with severe anorexia nervosa.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2020Article
- Anxiety and the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa: protocol for a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2018Article
- Stress is associated with exercise differently among individuals with higher and lower eating disorder symptoms: An ecological momentary assessment study.The International journal of eating disorders · 2017Article
- Trajectories of higher- and lower-order dimensions of negative and positive affect relative to restrictive eating in anorexia nervosa.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2017Article
- Aversive tension in female adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: a controlled ecological momentary assessment using smartphones.BMC psychiatry · 2016Article
- Ecological Momentary Assessment in Eating Disorder and Obesity Research: a Review of the Recent Literature.Current psychiatry reports · 2016Review
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Abstract
It has been hypothesized that restrictive eating allows individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) to avoid contact with negative emotions; however, this presumption has not been directly tested. In this study, we conducted an initial investigation examining whether restrictive eating serves an emotional avoidance function among individuals with AN. Females with AN (n = 118) reported on negative and positive affect, anxiety/tension, and eating behaviors at multiple time points daily over a 2-week period using ecological momentary assessment methodology. Affective patterns were compared using generalized estimating equation models between days in which participants reported either: (1) relatively high restriction (without binge eating); (2) relatively low restriction (without binge eating); (3) binge eating; or (4) no restriction or binge eating. We hypothesized that, if restriction were functioning to avoid negative affect, average negative affect and anxiety/tension, as well as average negative and positive affect lability, would be lower and average positive affect would be higher on days characterized by high levels of restriction compared to other eating patterns. Contrary to hypotheses: (1) average negative affect, anxiety/tension, and positive affect were not significantly different between days characterized by high restriction and those characterized by low or no restriction; (2) Negative affect and anxiety/tension lability were higher on days characterized by high restriction compared to no restriction or binge eating days; (3) Anxiety/tension lability was higher on days characterized by high versus low levels of restriction. This patterns of findings does not support an avoidance model of restrictive eating for individuals with AN.
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