Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
J Clin Psychol. 2019 Oct;75(10):1943-1958. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22830. Epub 2019 Jul 23.
Although disordered eating is robustly associated with suicidal thoughts, it is not well understood why these conditions relate to each other. Emotion dysregulation is a shared risk factor for disordered eating and suicidal thoughts. Individuals with dysregulated emotions struggle to select appropriate strategies to modulate emotions and the strategies they use might explain some of the shared variances. Thus, we examined whether emotion regulation strategies mediated the relationship between disordered eating and suicidal ideation.
Adult participants (N = 230) completed questionnaires on current disordered eating symptoms, emotion regulation strategies, and current suicidal ideation.
Disordered eating symptoms positively associated with suicidal ideation. In addition, expressive suppression mediated the relation between disordered eating symptoms and current suicidal ideation. No relation was found for cognitive reappraisal.
The use of expressive suppression as an emotion regulation strategy may be related to increased suicidal ideation in individuals who express concerns about eating.
尽管饮食失调与自杀意念密切相关，但尚不清楚为什么这两种情况会相互关联。情绪调节障碍是饮食失调和自杀意念的共同风险因素。情绪失调的个体难以选择适当的策略来调节情绪，他们所使用的策略可能可以解释一些共同的差异。因此，我们研究了情绪调节策略是否在饮食失调和自杀意念之间的关系中起中介作用。
成年参与者（N=230）完成了关于当前饮食失调症状、情绪调节策略和当前自杀意念的问卷。
饮食失调症状与自杀意念呈正相关。此外，表达抑制在饮食失调症状与当前自杀意念之间起中介作用。认知重评则没有这种关系。
在表达对饮食的担忧的个体中，使用表达抑制作为情绪调节策略可能与自杀意念的增加有关。
