Gómez-Expósito, AlexandraWolz, InesFagundo, Ana BeatrizGranero, RoserSteward, TrevorJiménez-Murcia, SusanaAgüera, ZaidaFernández Aranda, Fernando2017-03-242017-03-242016-08-221664-1078https://hdl.handle.net/2445/108886Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the implication of personality, impulsivity, and emotion regulation difficulties in patients with a bulimic-spectrum disorder (BSD) and suicide attempts (SA), BSD patients with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and BSD patients without these behaviors. Method: One hundred and twenty-two female adult BSD patients were assessed using self-report questionnaires. Patients were clustered post-hoc into three groups depending on whether they presented BSD without NSSI or SA (BSD), BSD with lifetime NSSI (BSD + NSSI) or BSD with lifetime SA (BSD + SA). Results: The BSD + NSSI and BSD + SA groups presented more emotion regulation difficulties, more eating and general psychopathology, and increased reward dependence in comparison with the BSD group. In addition, BSD + SA patients specifically showed problems with impulse control, while also presenting higher impulsivity than both the BSD and BSD + NSSI groups. No differences in impulsivity between the BSD and BSD + NSSI groups were found. Conclusions: The results show that BSD + NSSI and BSD + SA share a common profile characterized by difficulties in emotion regulation and low reward dependence, but differ in impulsivity and cooperativeness. This suggests that self-injury, in patients without a history of suicide attempts (i.e., BSD + NSSI), may have a regulatory role rather than being due to impulsivity.10 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) Gómez-Expósito, Alexandra et al., 2016http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/esSuïcidiConducta suïcidaCorrelació (Estadística)Ferides i lesionsBulímiaTrastorns de la conducta alimentàriaTrastorns de la personalitatTrastorns de la conductaSuicideSuicidal behaviorCorrelation (Statistics)Wounds and injuriesBulimiaEating disordersPersonality disordersBehavior disordersinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article6694082017-03-24info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess27597836