OBJECTIVE The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship among emotional regulation, emotional overeating, and general eating pathology in a treatment seeking sample of adults with Binge Eating Disorder (BED). METHOD The sample was composed of 326 adults (248 women, 78 men) who were obese and met DSM-IV-TR criteria for BED. Prior to treatment, participants completed the Diff...

Individuals with bipolar disorder experience emotion regulation difficulties, even during remission, but are able to effectively employ emotion regulation strategies when instructed. We hypothesized that this puzzling discrepancy might be due to their maladaptive emotion regulation choices. To test this hypothesis, we used a previously validated paradigm (Sheppes, Scheibe, Suri, & Gross, 2011; ...

Individuals with bipolar disorder experience emotion regulation difficulties, even during remission, but are able to effectively employ emotion regulation strategies when instructed. We hypothesized that this puzzling discrepancy might be due to their maladaptive emotion regulation choices. To test this hypothesis, we used a previously validated paradigm (Sheppes, Scheibe, Suri, & Gross, 2011; ...

Objective: The unprecedented nature of Covid pandemic and cessation of full face-to face affiliation along with homebound restrictions have caused a variety of psychological distress among adolescents. Adolescents vary in the way they perceive such stressors and some respond with eating disturbances which could reflect their dysfunctional emotion regulation strategies.  The present research was...

objectives: the purpose of the study was to compare the emotion regulation strategies of blind and sighted students.  methods: the research method used was descriptive and causal-comparative, and the statistical population included all the sighted and blind students at the university of isfahan and the islamic azad university of khorasgan. the sample volume was 64 members (32 members in each gr...

objective: an important concept for understanding emotional disorders is emotion regulation. the present study focuses on effectiveness of transdiagnostic therapy on emotion regulation strategies of patients with emotional disorders in comparison with cognitive-behavior therapy. methods: this study was a pretest/posttest randomized control trial. a diagnostically heterogeneous clinical sample o...

Difficulties in emotion regulation have been implicated as a potential mechanism underlying anxiety and mood disorders. It is possible that sex differences in emotion regulation may contribute towards the heightened female prevalence for these disorders. Previous fMRI studies of sex differences in emotion regulation have shown mixed results, possibly due to difficulties in discriminating the co...