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Open AccessMaladaptive exercise in eating disorders: lifetime and current impact on mental health and treatment seeking
Many patients with eating disorders report exercise as a central symptom of their illness—as a way to compensate for food intake, prevent weight-gain, and/or reduce negative affect. Previous findings show asso...
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Open AccessValidation of the eating pathology symptoms inventory (EPSI) in Swedish adolescents
Eating disorders (ED) are associated with symptoms across body image, disordered eating, and exercise-related domains, and while predominantly affecting females, ED in males is also a significant concern. Howe...
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Open AccessTaking the LEAP: study protocol for a randomized, multicentre, naturalistic, efficacy trial of the compuLsive Exercise Activity theraPy (LEAP) - a cognitive behavioral program specifically targeting compulsive exercise in patients with eating disorders
About half of Swedish eating disorder patients report exercising compulsively and compulsive exercise (CE) is prevalent in all diagnoses and both genders. Yet there are no systematic treatments targeting CE in...
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Open AccessInitial self-blame predicts eating disorder remission after 9 years
Research into predictors of outcome in eating disorders (ED) has shown conflicting results, with few studies of long-term predictors and the possible importance of psychological variables that may act as risk-...
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Open AccessSelf-directed behaviors differentially explain associations between emotion dysregulation and eating disorder psychopathology in patients with or without objective binge-eating
Emotion dysregulation and negative self-directed behaviors are key characteristics of eating disorders (EDs), but their interaction in relation to ED psychopathology is insufficiently explored, and empirically...
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Open AccessFactor Structure of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale in Treatment Seeking Adults with Eating Disorders
The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) is extensively used as a measure of emotion (dys-)regulation ability in both clinical and nonclinical populations. This is the first study to examine the fac...
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Open AccessRunning on empty – a nationwide large-scale examination of compulsive exercise in eating disorders
Compulsive exercise (CE) has been the neglected “Cinderella” among eating disorder (ED) symptoms, even though it seems to impact severity, treatment and outcome. This prompted a large-scale and systematic exam...
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Open AccessEmotion dysregulation, self-image and eating disorder symptoms in University Women
We studied associations between emotion dysregulation, self-image and eating disorder (ED) symptoms in university women, and contrasted two indirect effect models to examine possible intervening mechanisms to ...
