Emotional regulation predicts bulimia nervosa and body image among students in the State of Kuwait

Document Type : Original research article

Author

Psychological researcher at the Ministry of Education - Kuwait

Abstract

This research aims to study the verification predictability of emotional regulation on the bulimia nervosa and body image as will as the disclosure about the differences between emotion regulation rang of demographic variable (gender, age, education) measure of emotional regulation, bulimia nervosa and body image of estimated the searcher was applied of the (N=100) of the patient who survive in bulimia nervosa and the study concluded that the most important set of the result and a strong statistically significant correlation between the degree of the emotional regulation and bulimia nervosa and body image, where it is considered on emotional regulation is more important determinants of the bulimia nervosa and body image, there were a storng statistically significant difference between the average of the male and female average scores on the emotional requlation and the bulimia nervosa and body image as it is clear that there are also differences between ther upper and lower age group on the measure of emotional regulation and the measure of the bulimia nervosa, it is also clear that the emotional regulation doesn't vary according to the difference of education.

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