Explicit and implicit emotional expression in bulimia nervosa in the acute state and after recovery

Expression of emotional state is considered to be a core facet of an individual's emotional competence. Emotional processing in BN has not been often studied and has not been considered from a broad perspective. This study aimed at examining the implicit and explicit emotional expression in BN...

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Published in:PloS one 2014-07, Vol.9 (7), p.e101639-e101639
Main Authors: Tárrega, Salomé, Fagundo, Ana B, Jiménez-Murcia, Susana, Granero, Roser, Giner-Bartolomé, Cristina, Forcano, Laura, Sánchez, Isabel, Santamaría, Juan José, Ben-Moussa, Maher, Magnenat-Thalmann, Nadia, Konstantas, Dimitri, Lucas, Mikkel, Nielsen, Jeppe, Bults, Richard G A, Lam, Tony, Kostoulas, Theodoros, Fakotakis, Nikos, Riesco, Nadine, Wolz, Ines, Comín-Colet, Josep, Cardi, Valentina, Treasure, Janet, Fernández-Formoso, José Antonio, Menchón, José Manuel, Fernández-Aranda, Fernando
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Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Disease
Adult
Anger
Anorexia
Ansietat
Anxiety
Anxiety - complications
Attentional bias
Biology and Life Sciences
Bulimia
Bulimia nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa - complications
Bulimia Nervosa - psychology
Bulímia
Computer & video games
Diagnostic systems
Dones
Eating disorders
Emocions
Emotions
Expressed Emotion
Face recognition
Female
Humans
Laboratories
Patients
Psychiatry
Recovery
Recovery (Medical)
Sleep
Social sciences
Trastorns de la conducta alimentària
Women
Young Adult
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Summary:Expression of emotional state is considered to be a core facet of an individual's emotional competence. Emotional processing in BN has not been often studied and has not been considered from a broad perspective. This study aimed at examining the implicit and explicit emotional expression in BN patients, in the acute state and after recovery. Sixty-three female participants were included: 22 BN, 22 recovered BN (R-BN), and 19 healthy controls (HC). The clinical cases were drawn from consecutive admissions and diagnosed according to DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria. Self reported (explicit) emotional expression was measured with State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory-2, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Symptom Check List-90 items-Revised. Emotional facial expression (implicit) was recorded by means of an integrated camera (by detecting Facial Feature Tracking), during a 20 minutes therapeutic video game. In the acute illness explicit emotional expression [anxiety (p
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0101639