ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Repetitive Negative Thinking and Eating Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of the Role of Worry and Rumination.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Role of Emotion Regulation in Eating Disorders: A Network Meta-Analysis Approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Self-Esteem and Repetitive Negative Thinking as Mediators of the Association Between Bullying and Disordered Eating.Journal of clinical psychology · 2026Article
- Clinical characteristics linked to persistent and emerging eating disorder risk trajectories in young people seeking mental health care.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Borderline personality disorder and eating disorders are characterized by specific patterns of autistic traits, post-traumatic and catatonic symptoms.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- Worry, Rumination, and Metacognitive Beliefs in Adolescents with Obesity Associated with Binge Eating Disorder (BED) vs. Age-Matched Adolescents with Essential Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire in a sample of Afghan students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The association between worry, rumination, and metacognitive beliefs in female adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Sleep Quality, Pain, Worry, and Rumination in Fibromyalgia: Results from Mediation Analyses.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- A qualitative investigation of the factors influencing eating disorder symptomology during the postpartum period.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Emotional Dysregulation and Emotional Eating in Hospitalized Adults with Obesity: The Mediating Role of Worry and Rumination.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Repetitive Negative Thinking in University Students with Specific Learning Disorder: Does Gender Matter?Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2025Article
- The risk of believing that emotions are bad and uncontrollable: association with orthorexia nervosa.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- Profile of maladaptive and normative eating behaviors in correlation with rumination: a cross-sectional study among Lebanese adults.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2025Article
- Rumination and psychological resilience in Chinese civil aviation flight students: the chain mediating role of proactive coping and generalized anxiety disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Social support and psychological distress of patients with pituitary adenomas: chain-mediated effects of self-efficacy and rumination.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The psychological mechanism of Self-objectification: the interaction between sociocultural pressures and the self-system.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Intolerance of uncertainty and repetitive negative thinking: transdiagnostic moderators of perfectionism in eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Stress, repetitive negative thinking, and mental health in Chilean university students: an ecological momentary assessment study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Back to the future: Progressing memory research in eating disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Current Discoveries and Future Implications of Eating Disorders.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
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Abstract
The role of worry and rumination in eating disorders (EDs) is controversial. This meta-analysis of the literature is aimed at clarifying the relationship between repetitive negative thinking (RNT) and EDs. In accordance with the PRISMA criteria, a comprehensive search of the literature was conducted on PubMed and PsycInfo from inception to March 2021. Search terms: "eating disorder/anorexia/bulimia/binge eating disorder" AND "worry/rumination/brooding/repetitive thinking". A manual search of reference lists was also run. Forty-three studies were included. RNT was found to be associated with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. A moderating effect was found for "presence/absence ED diagnosis" and "subtype of ED symptom". ED patients showed higher RNT than the general population. No differences were observed for age or between worry and rumination in the magnitude of their association with EDs.
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