Emotional dysregulation in non-clinical and clinical subjects

Emotional dysregulation is a complex pattern of reactivity to reality stimuli that now can be empirically studied. The dysregulation of emotion rating scale (DERS, Gratz and Roamer, 2004 ) seems to be a good instrument to evaluate the components and the phases of the process of emotional dysregulation. In this presentation, the data from Italian clinical and non-clinical population will be discussed. Clinical subjects will be: borderline personality disorder BPD obesity with binge eating obesity without binge eating. Preliminary data concerning the process of emotional reactivity, after the presentation of emotionally significant video clips in borderline patients, will be presented, too. The main interest of this data is to compare different patterns of emotional dysregulation in different clinical populations.