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Emotion regulation styles as longitudinal predictors of compulsive exercise: a twelve month prospective study

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posted on 2014-11-27, 14:49 authored by Huw Goodwin, Emma HaycraftEmma Haycraft, Caroline Meyer
Exercise can be used as a mood regulator but, in the eating disorder literature, exercise has sometimes been found to be compulsive, detrimental to physical health, and regarded as one maladaptive strategy used to regulate emotions. This study examined longitudinal associations between emotion regulation styles and this compulsive exercise in 572 adolescents who completed measures of compulsive exercise and emotion regulation. Twelve months later they completed measures of compulsive exercise. Compulsive exercise was predicted by Internal Dysfunctional emotion regulation in girls and boys, even after controlling for initial levels of compulsive exercise. Adolescents displaying compulsivity to exercise may require intervention programmes to alter their emotion regulation strategies.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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Journal of Adolescence

Volume

37

Issue

8

Pages

1399 - 1404

Citation

GOODWIN, H., HAYCRAFT, E. and MEYER, C., 2014. Emotion regulation styles as longitudinal predictors of compulsive exercise: a twelve month prospective study. Journal of Adolescence, 37 (8), pp. 1399 - 1404.

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Elsevier / © The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2014

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in the Journal of Adolescence. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Adolescence, vol 37, pt. 8, pp. 1399-1404, DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.10.001

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0140-1971

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1095-9254

Language

  • en

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