ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Affect Dysregulation in Context: Implications and Future Directions of Experience Sampling Research on Affect Regulation Models of Loss of Control Eating.
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- Adaptation of the Barcelona Bipolar Eating Disorder Scale to Turkish and investigation of its validity and reliability.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Impact of DBT-based counselling program on emotional eating and emotional regulation among overweight women.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Psychological and psychiatric standardized procedures for metabolic bariatric surgery: a clinical practice model for mental health providers.Updates in surgery · 2025Review
- The effect of stress on delay discounting in female patients with early-onset bulimia nervosa and alcohol use disorder: functional magnetic resonance imaging study.BJPsych open · 2025Article
- Momentary Associations Across Specific Affective States and Dysregulated Eating Experiences Among Children and Adolescents With Loss of Control Eating Symptoms.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Lifetime stressor exposure is associated with greater rewarding effects of stress-related eating.Physiology & behavior · 2024Article
- Association between perceived stress, emotional eating, and adherence to healthy eating patterns among Saudi college students: a cross-sectional study.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
- Changes in affect longitudinally mediate associations between emotion regulation strategy use and disordered eating.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Between- and within-person effects of stress on emotional eating in women: a longitudinal study over 49 days.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
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- Practical Considerations for Using the Eating Disorder Examination Interview with Adolescents.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2023Review
- State negative affect in relation to loss-of-control eating among children and adolescents in the natural environment.Appetite · 2022Article
- A daily diary study of emotion regulation as a moderator of negative affect-binge eating associations.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Heart Rate Variability and Laboratory-Based Loss-of-Control Eating in Children and Adolescents.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
Loss of control eating is a core, transdiagnostic eating disorder symptom associated with psychological distress, functional impairment, and reduced quality of life. However, the factors that contribute to persistent loss of control eating despite negative consequences are not fully understood. Understanding the mechanisms that maintain loss of control eating is crucial to advance treatments that interrupt these processes. Affect regulation models of loss of control eating hypothesize that negative emotions trigger loss of control eating, and that loss of control eating is negatively reinforced because it temporarily decreases negative affect. Several variations on this basic affect regulation model have been proposed, including theories suggesting that negative affect decreases during loss of control eating rather than afterwards (escape theory), and that loss of control eating replaces one negative emotion with another that is less aversive (trade-off theory). Experience sampling designs that measure negative affect and eating behavior multiple times per day are optimally suited to examining the nuanced predictions of these affect regulation models in people's everyday lives. This paper critically reviews experience sampling studies examining associations between negative affect and loss of control eating, and discusses the implications for different affect regulation models of loss of control eating. The review concludes by proposing an expanded affect-focused model of loss of control eating that incorporates trait-level individual differences and momentary biological and environmental variables to guide future research. Clinical implications and recommendations are discussed.
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