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cc-by (c)  Rodrigues, Tania F. et al., 2024
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Emotion regulation eating psychopathology and putative transdiagnostic psychological processes: findings from an exploratory network analysis in a college sample

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Objective: Considering the prevalence of ED-related prodromal symptoms among higher education students (making them a population at risk for developing EDs), the main goals of this study were to conduct a network analysis in a college sample and to explore multivariate dependencies between a selection of empirically informed variables of interest to eating psychopathology, namely difficulties in emotion regulation and psychological processes (e.g., interoceptive awareness, self-compassion, self-criticism, mindfulness, and experiential avoidance). Methods: The sample included 294 college students (Mage = 21.4, SD = 5.0; MBMI = 22.4, SD = 3.7). A Gaussian graphical network model was estimated to visualize interactions among the studied variables and to assess their centrality in terms of betweenness, closeness, strength, and expected influence. Results: A network system with 21 nodes was estimated (sparsity = 0.52). Nodes assessing disordered eating symptoms displayed the strongest correlation coefficients with nodes assessing dimensions of interoceptive awareness: eating concerns and not-distracting (r = −0.11), shape concerns and trusting (r = −0.16), and weight concerns and trusting (r = −0.10). Self-compassion was the node with the highest betweenness (SELFCS = 2.27) and closeness centrality (SELFCS = 1.70). The nodes with the highest strength centrality were strategies (DERS = 1.91) and shape concerns (EDE-Q = 1.51). Discussion: In this network model conducted in a college sample, eating-related symptoms were mainly associated with dimensions of interoceptive awareness. Also, the lack of effective strategies to regulate emotions, shape concerns, and self-compassion stood out as central nodes in the network model. The results suggest that addressing these variables may be promising in disrupting network systems marked by the presence of prodromal eating psychopathology symptoms in at-risk populations (e.g., college students).

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RODRIGUES, Tânia, SILVA, Ricardo, FERNÁNDEZ ARANDA, Fernando, PINTO-PEREIRA MACHADO, Paulo. Emotion regulation eating psychopathology and putative transdiagnostic psychological processes: findings from an exploratory network analysis in a college sample. _Nutrients_. 2024. Vol. 16, núm. 20. [consulta: 25 de febrer de 2026]. ISSN: 2072-6643. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/216460]

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