Identifying subgroups of patients with eating disorders based on emotion dysregulation profiles: A factor mixture modeling approach to classification.

Abstract

atstorningar/]. The current sample were used in a previous study (cited in this manuscript) where the factor structure of the main variable, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), were analyzed.This study was approved by the Regional Ethics Committee in Linköping, Sweden (dnr: 2017/272-31). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Information regarding the determination of sample size, all data exclusions and all measures included in the study are reported in the manuscript. Data analytic syntax needed to reproduce the results are available on request from corresponding author. Data is not available as it consists of confidential health care information from the Stepwise quality assurance register that we are not allowed to share. Data were analyzed using Mplus version 7.4 (Muthén, 2015). The study was not preregistered.

Latent profiles of emotion dysregulation among individuals with binge‐spectrum eating disorders: Associations with eating disorder pathology

“…The authors identified three profiles with low, intermediate, and high scores of emotion dysregulation. This study also found that higher levels of emotion dysregulation were associated with higher levels of eating disorder pathology across a wide range of eating disorder diagnoses including anorexia nervosa, BN, binge eating disorder (BED), and other specified feeding and eating disorder (Nordgren et al., 2022). Although these studies investigated profiles of cognitive and emotional regulation in populations of individuals diagnosed with eating disorders more broadly, no other study has identified profiles across a population of individuals with B‐ED's with such a specific focus on emotion dysregulation.…”

“…The profile classified as 'dysregulated' contained the largest proportion of participants with eating disorder and general psychopathology, highlighting the connection between low self-regulation, including emotion dysregulation, and eating disorder and comorbid psychopathology (Eichler et al, 2022). Nordgren et al used factor mixture modelling in a population of 857 adults diagnosed with eating disorders to identify profiles of emotion dysregulation (Nordgren et al, 2022). The authors identified three profiles with low, intermediate, and high scores of emotion dysregulation.…”

“…Nordgren et al. used factor mixture modelling in a population of 857 adults diagnosed with eating disorders to identify profiles of emotion dysregulation (Nordgren et al., 2022). The authors identified three profiles with low, intermediate, and high scores of emotion dysregulation.…”

Broad and Narrow Transdiagnostic Risk Factors in Eating Disorders: A Preliminary Study on an Italian Clinical Sample

“…The patients’ mean age was 31.6 years ( SD = 12.8, range = [ 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 ]), and their mean years of education were 13.4 ( SD = 2.84, range = [ 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 ,…”

“…The role of emotion dysregulation as a crucial factor in the etiology and maintenance of EDs is widely supported in the literature (e.g., [ 35 , 38 ]). In fact, extensive research pointed out that eating pathology was related to high emotion dysregulation levels and poor adaptive ER strategies in both clinical and non-clinical adult samples [ 39 , 40 , 41 ]. From a qualitative standpoint, a recent meta-synthesis showed that patients with EDs have difficulty managing their emotions, so they use ED behaviors to deal with and control negative emotions [ 42 ].…”