Individuals with low distress
tolerance (DT) experience negative emotion as particularly threatening and are
highly motivated to reduce or avoid such affective experiences. Consequently,
these individuals have difficulty regulating emotions and tend to engage in
maladaptive strategies, such as overeating, as a means to reduce or avoid
distress.
Hatha yoga encourages one to implement present-centered awareness and
non-reaction in the face of physical and psychological discomfort and, thus,
emerges as a potential strategy for increasing DT. To test whether a hatha yoga
intervention can enhance DT, a transdiagnostic risk and maintenance factor,
this study randomly assigned females high in emotional eating in response to
stress (N =
52) either to an 8-week, twice-weekly hatha (Bikram) yoga intervention or to a
waitlist control condition.
Self-reported DT and emotional eating were measured
at baseline, weekly during treatment, and 1-week post-treatment. Consistent
with prediction, participants in the yoga condition reported greater increases
in DT over the course of the intervention relative to waitlist participants
(Cohen’s d =
.82).
Also consistent with prediction, the reduction in emotional eating was
greater for the yoga condition than the waitlist condition (Cohen’s d =
.92). Importantly, reductions distress absorption, a specific sub-facet of DT,
accounted for 15% of the variance in emotional eating, a hallmark behavior of
eating pathology and risk factor for obesity.
Full article at: http://goo.gl/36TK1o
By:
1Department of Psychology, University of
Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
2San Francisco VA Medical Center, San
Francisco, CA, USA
Correspondence address: Johnna Medina, Department of
Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 108 E. Dean Keeton stop A8000,
Austin, TX 78712, USA. Email: ude.saxetu@mannhoj
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