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Emotion regulation, emotion recognition, and empathy in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.
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- A machine learning investigation into the temporal dynamics of physical activity-mediated emotional regulation in adolescents with anorexia nervosa and healthy controls.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2023Article
- Family, friends, and feelings: the role of relationships to parents and peers and alexithymia in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Experiences of parents and patients hospitalised in a child psychiatric unit for anorexia nervosa after reorganisation of care imposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic in France: a qualitative study-The QUALICOVID study.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Disturbed families or families disturbed: a reconsideration.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Review
- Adapted emotion skills training group for young people with anorexia nervosa : A mixed-methods evaluation.Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2021Article
- Construct validity of the Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale among women high in eating disorder symptoms: a cross-sectional study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeEmotional functions may play an important role in anorexia nervosa (AN). The onset of the disorder generally occurs during adolescence, which is a critical period of emotional development. However, most studies that evaluated emotional functions in AN were conducted in adult patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate emotion regulation, emotion recognition, and empathy skills in adolescent girls with AN by controlling for the effects of depression and anxiety symptoms, childhood traumatic experiences, and attachment security on emotional functions.
methodsThirty-two adolescent girls with AN and 32 healthy counterparts completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test, Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, and the Child and Adolescent KA-SI Empathic Tendency Scale-Adolescent Form.
resultsThe results revealed that adolescents with AN were found to have more difficulties in emotion regulation, higher alexithymic tendencies, and lower empathy skills compared with the control group. However, emotion recognition was not found to be significantly different between the two groups. These results were the same when controlling for the effects of depression and anxiety symptoms, childhood traumatic experiences, and attachment security except for empathy skills. Alexithymia and depressive symptoms were significantly related to emotion regulation difficulties in adolescents with AN.
conclusionsConsidering the results, it seems that emotion regulation and alexithymia may play a crucial role in the development and maintenance of AN. Accordingly, it is necessary to focus on the improvement of these skills during the treatment of AN. Furthermore, interventions promoting these skills during adolescence may be preventive. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, case-control study.
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