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Deficits in emotion regulation mediate the relationship between childhood abuse and later eating disorder symptoms
- Authors:
- BURNS Erin E., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 36(1), 2012, pp.32-39.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This study investigated the relationship between child abuse and emotion dysregulation and subsequent eating disorders. It examined the impact of childhood emotional abuse (CEA) on emotion dysregulation and eating disorder (ED) symptoms while controlling for the effects of sexual and physical abuse. Structural equation modelling was used to examine the effects of all three abuse types on multiple variables as well as whether deficits in emotion regulation mediated the relationship between abuse and eating disorders. Participants included 1,254 female college students from the United States. Findings revealed significant paths from abuse subtypes to specific eating disorder symptoms, with CEA evidencing the strongest association with ED symptoms. Emotion dysregulation was positively associated with ED symptoms, and mediated the effects of emotional abuse on symptoms. The authors concluded that the findings highlight the importance of the assessment of CEA in the treatment of ED symptoms later in life.
Child abuse dissociation and core beliefs in bulimic disorders
- Authors:
- HARTT Joanne, WALLER Glenn
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 26(9), September 2002, pp.923-938.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Examines the relationship between the severity of four forms of reported child abuse (emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse) and bulimic pathology in a group of bulimic women. No dimensional relationship was found between any form of child abuse and bulimic pathology. However, neglect and sexual abuse were correlated with dissociation. Calls for further research involving larger samples.
Childhood trauma, dissociation, and the internal eating disorder ‘voice’
- Authors:
- PUGH Matthew, WALLER Glenn, ESPOSITO Mirko
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 86, 2018, pp.197-205.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Many individuals diagnosed with eating disorders describe their disorder as being represented by an internal ‘voice’. In line with cognitive models of voice-hearing, previous research has identified associations between voice appraisals and eating psychopathology in anorexia nervosa. Whether these findings generalise to other eating disorder subtypes remains unknown. The aetiology of the internal eating disorder voice also remains unclear. Traumatic-dissociative models of voice-hearing, which link such experiences to decontexualised material arising from early traumatic events, might also be relevant to eating disorder groups. To determine whether cognitive models of trauma and voice-hearing apply across eating disorder subtypes, 85 individuals fulfilling ICD-10 criteria for an eating disorder completed self-report measures regarding eating disorder cognitions, voice-related appraisals, childhood trauma, and dissociation. The relative power of the eating disorder voice was found to be positively associated with experiences of childhood emotional abuse, and this relationship was partly mediated by dissociation. In addition, eating disorder voices appraised as powerful and benevolent predicted more negative attitudes towards eating across diagnostic groups, but were unrelated to disordered eating behaviours or weight. These findings suggest that the eating disorder voice plays a meaningful role in eating pathology across diagnoses and that this experience might be related, in part, to experiences of childhood maltreatment. Therapeutic implications are discussed. (Publisher abstract)
The Association of Child Abuse and Eating Disorder Symptomatology: the importance of multiple forms of abuse and revictimization
- Authors:
- MESSMAN-MOORE Terri L., GARRIGUS Allison Scheer
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma, 14(3), 2007, pp.51-72.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Using self-report questionnaires, symptoms of eating disorders were examined in relation to child sexual (CSA), physical (CPA), and emotional abuse (CEA), and adult rape among 301 college women in the United States. CPA and adult rape were associated with fear of fatness and bulimic behaviour. CEA, family cohesion and expressiveness, and adult rape were related to difficulties recognizing emotional states and satiety. Individuals who reported multiple forms of child abuse or who were revictimized exhibited the highest levels of symptoms. Revictimized women were more likely to report clinical levels of symptoms compared with individuals reporting adult rape without child abuse or child abuse without adult rape. Findings support the assumption that negative experiences in addition to CSA, such as adult rape and other forms of child abuse, influence eating pathology, and suggest a cumulative impact of abuse. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Childhood emotional abuse and disordered eating among undergraduate females: mediating influence of alexithymia and distress
- Authors:
- HUND Anita R., ESPELAGE Dorothy L.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 30(4), April 2006, pp.393-407.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Drawing from stress-vulnerability and trauma theory, this paper presents a model of associations among child emotional abuse (CEA), alexithymia, general distress (GD), and disordered eating (DE). This study extended previous research on psychological outcomes of child physical and sexual abuse to explore those of CEA using measures of specific emotionally abusive acts. Five hundred and eighty-eight female university students completed self-report surveys consisting of measures of CEA, alexithymia, depression, anxiety, and DE. Structural equation modeling was used to test this conceptual model. Comparison between measurement models suggested that bulimic behavior is a separate construct from restrictive eating behaviors and body dissatisfaction. In the structural model with the best fit, the association between CEA and DE was mediated by alexithymia and GD (i.e., a component of depression and anxiety). Specifically, CEA was associated with alexithymia, which was further related to GD. Then, restrictive eating behaviors and attitudes mediated the relation between GD and bulimic behaviors. By analyzing a second, nested model, this latter pathway was shown to be important. While the best-fitting model is only one of many possibilities, these results point to a weak — but significant — complex relation between CEA and DE. They are associated through a series of mediating relations in a multivariate model including alexithymia and GD. The current study supports research suggesting that child emotional abuse can have a negative impact on its survivors. Treatment of those survivors manifesting disordered eating should be holistic, as opposed to targeted towards specific symptoms.
Recovering from sexual abuse, addictions and compulsive behaviors: "numb" survivors
- Author:
- KNAUER Sandra
- Publisher:
- Haworth Social Work Practice Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 367p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
Survivors of abuse who have gone without treatment sometimes become either sexual perpetrators or sexual addicts and may experience many different types of psychological dysfunction. This book describes how the survivor came to employ addictive or compulsive behaviors, why the survivor continues to employ these self-abusive behaviours despite the pain caused by the addiction, and what the survivor needs to do to aid recovery
Problems suffered by children due to the effects of Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)
- Author:
- LOWENSTEIN L.F.
- Journal article citation:
- Justice of the Peace, 15.6.02, 2002, pp.464-466.
- Publisher:
- Butterworth
Describes the impact that relationship break-ups and adverse alienation procedures have on the child or children from damaged relationships.
Truants from life: theory and therapy
- Editor:
- VARMA Ved
- Publisher:
- David Fulton
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 201p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the causes of withdrawal in children and young people. Section 1 looks at causes such as: eating disorders; bullying; emotional abuse by adults; and bereavement. Section 2 deals with assessment and treatment, including psychiatric examination, psychological examination, children's friendships, language and communication, educational therapy, play therapy, and art and music therapy.