TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Associations of food addiction and nonsuicidal self-injury among women with an eating disorder: a common strategy for regulating emotions? JO - European eating disorders review A1 - Carlson, Lily A1 - Steward, Trevor A1 - Agüera, Zaida A1 - Mestre-Bach, Gemma A1 - Magaña, Pablo A1 - Granero, Roser A1 - Jimenez-Murcia, Susana A1 - Claes, Laurence A1 - Gearhardt, Ashley N. A1 - Menchón, Jose M. A1 - Fernández-Aranda, Fernando SP - 629 EP - 637 VL - 26 IS - 6 N2 - OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between lifetime nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), emotion regulation, and food addiction (FA) in women (n = 220) with eating disorders (ED) compared with (n = 121) healthy controls (HC).

METHOD: Participants were assessed via face-to-face interviews for ED diagnosis and lifetime NSSI. FA was assessed with Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 and emotion regulation using the Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS).

RESULTS: The prevalence of FA was significantly higher among women with an ED when compared with HC (75.9% vs. 4.1%, p < 0.001). Similarly, subjects presenting FA showed a high prevalence of lifetime NSSI, in both ED and HC (40.7% and 60.0%, respectively). Our predictive model revealed FA and DERS total scores as indicators of the presence of lifetime NSSI independent of group assignment, ED diagnosis, and age.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest a shared aetiology between ED, NSSI, and FA, explained possibly in part by emotion-regulation deficits.

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Eating Disorders Association.

Language: en

LA - en SN - 1072-4133 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/erv.2646 ID - ref1 ER -