Difficulties with emotion regulation have been established as a core deficit in anorexia nervosa (AN).
However, limited research has evaluated whether weight gain is associated with improvements in emotion regulation difficulties in AN and whether improvements in emotion regulation are associated with reductions in eating disorder psychopathology. The aims of this study were threefold:
1) to examine the nature and extent of emotion regulation difficulties in AN;
2) to determine whether these difficulties improved during intensive
treatment for the eating disorder; and
3) to study whether improvements in emotion regulation were associated
with improvements in eating disorder psychopathology.