ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
Orthorexia nervosa and its association with alexithymia, emotion dysregulation and disordered eating attitudes among Lebanese adults.
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- Assessing Orthorexic Tendencies and Dietary Patterns: A Cross-Sectional Study of Orthorexia Nervosa and Dietary Patterns in Lithuania.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Affect, Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviors, and Orthorexia Nervosa Among Women: Mediation Through Intuitive Eating.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Beyond healthy eating: introducing ONI-Hu, the Hungarian version of the Orthorexia Nervosa Inventory.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
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- The latent profile structure of alexithymia in the elderly and its relationship to eating behaviors: the mediating role of physical activity.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and profiles of healthy orthorexia versus orthorexia nervosa: towards an explanatory model of orthorexia as a multidimensional eating style.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- Internet addiction and its relationship with food choice motives and the risk of eating disorders among young adults in Malaysia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Mediating effect of psychological distress and mindful eating behaviors between orthorexia nervosa and academic self-efficacy among Lebanese university female students.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Exploring the relationship between dysfunctional metacognitive processes and orthorexia nervosa: the moderating role of emotion regulation strategies.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Too healthy for their own good: orthorexia nervosa and compulsive exercise in the community.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
- Psychometric properties of an Arabic translation of the brief version of the difficulty in emotion regulation scale (DERS-16).BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Maladaptive Cognitive Schemas as Predictors of Disordered Eating: Examining the Indirect Pathway through Emotion Regulation Difficulties.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- [Prevalence and factors associated with eating disorders in Peruvian Human Medicine students in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a multicentre study].Revista colombiana de psiquiatria · 2022Article
- Validation of the Arabic version of the ORTO-R among a sample of Lebanese young adults.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Orthorexia nervosa: replication and validation of the ORTO questionnaires translated into Greek in a survey of 848 Greek individuals.Hormones (Athens, Greece) · 2022Article
- Eating disorders and their relationship with menopausal phases among a sample of middle-aged Lebanese women.BMC women's health · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study aims to explore whether orthorexia nervosa, like other eating disorders, is associated with difficulties identifying, describing, and regulating one's own emotions among a sample of Lebanese adults.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted during October 2020, during the lockdown period imposed by the government for the COVID-19 pandemic. All participants above 18 years of age were allowed to participate in this study. A total of 787 Lebanese adults out of 920 (85.54%) completed an online survey including Arabic versions of the ORTO-R measure of orthorexia, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale, and the Eating Attitudes Test.
resultsAfter making sure that all norms are verified, hierarchical linear regressions were conducted to evaluate the association between disordered eating attitudes (EAT scores) and ON (model 1), and after controlling for difficulties in emotion regulation (DERS score) (model 2). Model 1 accounted for 15.1% of the variance of ON (adj. R
conclusionThe present research suggests that people with high ON tendencies experience troubles recognizing, regulating, and describing their emotions, similarly to other disordered eating. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 5.
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