*2.1. Participants*

The sample comprised *N* = 829 participants, from European (Spain, *n* = 300; Austria, *n* = 43; Germany, *n* = 103; Russia, *n* = 119; Portugal, *n* = 28; Lithuania, *n* = 23; Czech Republic, *n* = 50; Ukraine, *n* = 10) and Asian (China, *n* = 92; Korea, *n* = 50; Japan, *n* = 11) private and public ED units. Participants were diagnosed according to DSM-5 criteria [29] by expert clinical psychologists and psychiatrists using a semi-structured clinical interview (SCID-5) [30].
