Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ruiz-Aranda, Desireé
• Zysberg, Leehu
• García-Linares, Ernesto
• Castellano-Guerrero, Ana María
• Martínez-Brocca, María Asunción
• Gutiérrez-Colosía, Mencía R.

Titel

Emotional abilities and HbA1c levels in patients with type 1 diabetes

Ist Teil von

• Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2018-07, Vol.93, p.118-123

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •People with greater diabetes distress have higher levels of HbA1c.•Adolescents with difficulties in emotion regulation experience greater deterioration of glycemic control.•Effective emotional regulation strategies improve management of negative emotions derived from diabetes.•Emotional regulation may be essential in the design of adequate psychological interventions. In recent years a growing body of research is focused on the relationships between emotions and health. When it comes to diabetes, findings suggest that distress might play a key role in the acquisition and maintenance of health habits associated with diabetic management. This report describes two studies examining the roles of emotional abilities in diabetic management from two different conceptual points of view using two culturally different samples. In study 1, we examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and HbA1c levels in a sample of eighty-five patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) in Israel. In study 2, we examined the relationship between specific emotional regulation strategies and HbA1c in sixty-seven adolescents with DM1, while examining the mediating role of distress in this association. The results showed a negative association between emotional intelligence and HbA1c levels, even after controlling for potential intervening factors. We found that the relationship between difficulties in emotion regulation and HbA1c seemed to be mediated by diabetes-related distress. These findings may aid in the design of psychological models for future research as well as interventions aimed at improving emotional abilities in people with DM1.