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EATING DISORDERS: THE ROLE OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND THE EMOTION DYSREGULATION
Filippo Brustiengh
; Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Francesca Alice Fiore Mezzetti
; Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Cristina Di Sarno
; School of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Cecilia Giulietti
; Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Patrizia Moretti
; Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Alfonso Tortorella
; Division of Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Sažetak
Background: The present retrospective case-control study is aimed at evaluating the presence of childhood traumatic factors
and the difficulty in regulating emotions, within a sample of patients with eating disorders compared to the group of healthy controls.
Subjects and methods: We included 65 people assessed for eating disorders, 40 patients and 25 healthy controls, who were given
two tests: the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form (CTQ-SF) to investigate the presence of traumatic events and the
Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) to assess the emotional regulation.
Results: People with eating disorders showed higher average scores, and therefore greater severity than the control group, in all
the domains explored, both considering traumatic experiences and emotional dysregulation. The domain emotional neglect showed
the closest correlation with eating disorders (average scoring 15.9 vs 9.9 of healthy controls), followed by emotional abuse (12.2 vs
7.8), physical neglect (8.2 vs 6.6), physical abuse (8.3 vs 6.6) and sexual abuse (7.2 vs 5.6). In the same way, the emotional
dysregulation was greater among people with eating disorder than healty controls, concerning every items explored by DERS, as
clarity (average scoring 14.8 vs 11.4), awareness (17.1 vs 11.7), goals (16.3 vs 12.9), strategy (22.0 vs 14.7), non acceptance (17.4
vs 12.1) and impulse (16.5 vs 11.4).
Conclusions: Childhood traumatic experiences and emotional dysregulation result significantly higher in people with eating
disorders than healthy controls.
Ključne riječi
eating disorders; childhood trauma; emotional dysregulation
Hrčak ID:
264151
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Datum izdavanja:
4.9.2019.
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