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ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2020

Emotion and overeating behavior: effects of alexithymia and emotional regulation on overweight and obesity.

Maria Casagrande, Ilaria Boncompagni, Giuseppe Forte, Angela Guarino, Francesca Favieri

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Article in Eating and weight disorders : EWD, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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39 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria CasagrandeDipartimento di Psicologia Dinamica e Clinica, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Via degli Apuli, 1, 00185, Rome, Italy. maria.casagrande@uniroma1.it.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4430-3367
Ilaria BoncompagniDipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Giuseppe ForteDipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Angela GuarinoDipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Francesca FavieriDipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Via dei Marsi, 78, 00185, Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeObesity and overweight are significant risk factors for many serious diseases. Several studies have investigated the relationship between emotional regulation and overweight or obesity in people with eating disorders. Although a few studies have explored alexithymia in individuals with severe obesity without eating disorders, no attention has been paid to individuals with overweight and preclinical form of obesity. This study aims to assess whether overweight and obesity are related to emotional dysregulation and alexithymia.

methodsThe study involved 111 undergraduate students who had not been diagnosed with an eating disorder. The sample was divided into two groups according to their body mass index (BMI): normal weight (N = 55) and overweight (N = 56). All of them completed the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), and the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2).

resultsResults showed higher levels of alexithymia, and specifically higher difficulty in identifying feelings and an externally oriented thought, in participants with overweight. Multiple correlation analysis highlighted the positive relations between some EDI-2 subscales and both alexithymia and emotional regulation scores. Linear regressions revealed a significant relationship between body BMI and both alexithymia and emotional regulation strategies.

conclusionsThe condition of overweight/obesity seems to be associated with higher emotional dysregulation compared to normal weight condition. It is essential to study this relationship because it could represent a risk factor for the worsening of problems related to overeating and excessive body weight. These findings suggest that an integrated approach aimed at considering the promotion of emotional regulation could contribute to the effectiveness of a program designed to reduce overweight and obesity. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III: case-control analytic study.

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Affective SymptomsEmotional RegulationEmotionsHumansHyperphagiaObesityOverweightAlexithymiaEmotional regulationObesityOvereatingOverweight

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PMID31473988
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