title: A double burden: emotional eating and lack of cognitive reappraisal in eating disordered women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the influence of emotional eating and lack of cognitive reappraisal on eating pathology in women with binge-purge and restricting type eating disorders.
  
  
  METHODS
  Women with a diagnosis of anorexia or bulimia nervosa according to the DSM-IV-tr (n = 50) and non-clinical women without eating disorders (n = 52) were asked about emotional eating tendencies, adaptive emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal) and eating pathology symptoms.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In binge-purging women, emotional eating with limited use of cognitive reappraisal predicted level of eating pathology but not in the restricting and non-clinical women.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Emotional eating tendencies in combination with a low tendency to use cognitive reappraisal may influence the severity of eating pathology in individuals with binge-purge behaviours. Evidently, patients with these characteristics require a therapy that addresses adaptive emotion regulation skills.
authors.affiliation: Altrecht Eating Disorders Rintveld, Altrecht Mental Health Institute, The Netherlands. U.Danner@altrecht.nl
authors.forename: Unna N
authors.initials: UN
authors.lastname: Danner
authors.forename: Catharine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Evers
authors.forename: F Marijn
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Stok
authors.forename: Annemarie A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: van Elburg
authors.forename: Denise T D
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: de Ridder
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002032:Bulimia / Q000523:psychology; D052018:Bulimia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires