ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2020
The role of affect in the maintenance of binge-eating disorder: Evidence from an ecological momentary assessment study.
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- The Reward Re-Training protocol: A novel intervention approach designed to alter the reward imbalance contributing to binge eating during COVID-19.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Trial
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- Between shame, control, and survival: a grounded theory study of eating disorders among young Chinese women.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
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- Personal causal modeling of affect and eating behaviors in bulimia nervosa: implications for personalized treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Boredom and stress as momentary predictors of loss of control eating after metabolic and bariatric surgery: a longitudinal investigation.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2026Article
- Negative affect mediates the association between nightly sleep disturbance and next-day binge eating.Appetite · 2026Article
- Multimodal machine learning reveals neurobiological signatures of binge-type eating disorders.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Feeling Better Before, Not After: An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Affect Around Exercise in Women with Eating Disorders.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- Applying Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) to Understand Overweight and Obesity: A Systematic Review.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Review
- Sex/gender-specific association between emotion regulation strategies and eating disorders symptoms: a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
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Abstract
Affect regulation models of eating disorder behavior, which predict worsening of affect prior to binge-eating episodes and improvement in affect following such episodes, have received support in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. However, limited work has examined the trajectories of affect surrounding binge eating in binge-eating disorder (BED). In the current study, ecological momentary assessment data from 112 men and women with BED were used to examine the trajectories of positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), guilt, fear, hostility, and sadness relative to binge-eating episodes. Prior to binge episodes, PA significantly decreased, whereas NA and guilt significantly increased. Following binge episodes, levels of NA and guilt significantly decreased and PA stabilized. Overall, results indicate improvements in affect following binge-eating episodes, suggesting that binge eating may function to alleviate unpleasant emotional experiences among individuals with BED, which is consistent with affect regulation models of eating pathology. Because improvements in negative affect were primarily driven by change in guilt, findings also highlight the relative importance of understanding the relationship between guilt and binge-eating behavior within this population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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