Investigating the moderating role of emotional awareness in the association between urgency and binge eating

Emotional reactivity in a clinical sample of patients with eating disorders and nonsuicidal self-injury

“…While Lavender and colleagues (2015) concluded that AN and BN do not appear to differ in behavioral control when distressed, our results are consistent with findings that BN is associated with higher emotional reactivity compared to AN (Tapajoz et al, 2015), that negative urgency is greater among people with binge eating behavior (Kelly et al, 2014; Manjrekar et al, 2015), and that NSSI is particularly salient among those reporting binge and purge behaviors (Kostro et al, 2014). Taken together, these findings suggest that emotional reactivity may be a useful factor to specifically examine the development and maintenance of BN, and that reactivity may be most relevant to the co-occurrence of NSSI and BN specifically, as opposed to other EDs.…”

Improving Inhibitory Control Abilities (ImpulsE)—A Promising Approach to Treat Impulsive Eating?

“…the food‐specific interruptive inhibition mentioned in the preceding texts and the more emotion‐based facet urgency ) play a more specific role in the maintenance of disinhibited eating behaviour than others. Urgency, indicating the tendency to act rashly in response to extreme affect, has recently been confirmed as strong correlate and predictor of overeating, loss of control, binge‐eating frequency (Manasse et al, ; Manjrekar, Berenbaum, & Bhayani, ; Racine et al, ) and also response inhibition performance (Wilbertz et al, ). These findings give rise to the assumption that impulsivity interacts with emotion regulation deficits, in line with the emotion regulation model for BED, which suggests negative emotion as a trigger for binge eating, followed by an improvement in mood.…”

“…To date, two pathways by which deficits in inhibitory control abilities maintain disinhibited eating can be proposed from a transdiagnostic perspective: an emotion‐based and a merely food‐based inhibitory control pathway (see also Kittel, Brauhardt, & Hilbert, ). If emotion regulation fails, it seems plausible that dysfunctional ‘emotional eating’ may follow, particularly in the case of inhibitory control deficits towards palatable food (Danner et al, ; Kukk & Akkermann, ; Leehr et al, ; Manjrekar et al, ).…”

Emotional Awareness Moderates the Relationship Between Childhood Abuse and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptom Factors

“…In addition to examining whether childhood abuse and emotional awareness would be associated with specific BPD symptom factors, we also explored the possibility that the effect of these predictors would be moderated by each other. Emotional awareness has often been found to moderate the links between other variables (such as emotion regulation and urgency) and measures of well‐being and psychopathology, such as affective well‐being and binge eating (e.g., Manjrekar, Berenbaum, & Bhayani, ). Similarly, past research has often found interactions between attention to emotion and clarity of emotion in the prediction of well‐being and psychopathology (e.g., Boden, Gala, & Berenbaum, ).…”