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Assessment ; 31(3): 602-616, 2024 Apr.
Article En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37226768

Fear approach is a theorized mechanism of exposure treatment for anxiety-based disorders. However, there are no empirically established self-report instruments measuring the tendency to approach feared stimuli. Because clinical fears are heterogeneous, it is important to create a measure that is adaptable to person- or disorder-specific fears. The current study (N = 455) tests the development, factor structure, and psychometric properties of a self-report instrument of fear approach broadly and the adaptability of this measure to specific eating disorder fears (i.e., food, weight gain). Factor analyses identified a unidimensional, nine-item factor structure as the best fitting model. This measure had good convergent, divergent, and incremental validity and good internal consistency. The eating disorder adaptations retained good fit and strong psychometric properties. These results suggest that this measure is a valid, reliable, and adaptable measure of fear approach, which can be used in research and exposure therapy treatment for anxiety-based disorders.


Feeding and Eating Disorders , Phobic Disorders , Humans , Anxiety/therapy , Fear , Anxiety Disorders/therapy , Feeding and Eating Disorders/therapy , Psychometrics/methods , Reproducibility of Results , Surveys and Questionnaires
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Personal Disord ; 15(2): 146-156, 2024 Mar.
Article En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37589688

Existing literature on the effects of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and eating disorder (ED) comorbidity in terms of clinical presentation and treatment outcome has been limited and inconclusive. The present study examined whether clients with EDs and varying levels of BPD symptoms presented with more severe ED symptoms at admission, and whether they responded to dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)-based treatment. Participants (N = 176) were adults in a DBT-based partial hospitalization program for EDs at an academic medical center. Participants completed self-report measures at admission, 1-month postadmission, discharge, and 6-month follow-up. Results suggested that patients with elevated BPD symptoms at admission had greater ED symptoms during treatment, evidenced by small to moderate effect sizes. However, patients with high BPD symptoms demonstrated steeper declines in binge eating, fasting, and parasuicidal behavior early during treatment compared to patients with low BPD symptoms. Individuals with high BPD symptoms at admission (i.e., probable BPD diagnosis) were as likely to meet remission criteria and relapse as individuals with low BPD symptoms, though this null finding may be influenced by small cell sizes. Our findings also suggest that DBT skills use does not predict changes in symptoms. In sum, our findings suggest that while clients with higher BPD symptoms may improve during DBT-based partial hospitalization, their ED symptoms may remain more severe. Future studies are needed to determine whether adjunctive treatments improve outcomes for clients with EDs and comorbid BPD symptoms in DBT programs and whether skills use quality is a better predictor of ED symptom changes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).


Borderline Personality Disorder , Dialectical Behavior Therapy , Feeding and Eating Disorders , Adult , Humans , Dialectical Behavior Therapy/methods , Borderline Personality Disorder/complications , Borderline Personality Disorder/therapy , Comorbidity , Self Report , Treatment Outcome , Feeding and Eating Disorders/complications , Feeding and Eating Disorders/therapy , Behavior Therapy/methods
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