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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"emotional eating"”.
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Emotional eating within a clinical and community population
Introduction: Emotional eating literature has focused on those with a clinical diagnosis around eating difficulties, exploring emotional eating in response to ‘negative’ emotions. Limited studies investigate the prevalence of emotional eating within community samples, and evidence appears …
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Therapeutic Recommendations for Emotional Eating: A Delphi Study
Emotional eating is a common behavioral phenomenon that involves eating in response to emotional impulses rather than physical hunger and is believed to be a form of affect regulation (Ball and Lee, 2002). While emotional eating occurs within the symptomatology of eating disorders it also occurs …
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Examining how avoidant coping and anger suppression relate to emotional eating in young women
… negative emotions. The importance of restrained eating (chronic dieting) as a precursor for emotional and binge eating is well documented. As a group, restrained eaters reliably eat more in response to negative emotions compared to nonrestrained eaters. Researchers have recently noted, however, …
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The roles of emotional eating and emotional awareness in weight loss: a treatment outcome study
… the phone, and via the Internet—targeting either emotional awareness (EF approach) and emotional eating or problem-solving competencies (PS approach; both promoted physical activity and caloric reduction); (b) compared weight loss outcomes and engagement from each of the two intervention …
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Emotional eating in early Jamaican adolescents: the role of remote acculturation, psychological distress and U.S. media
The present study explored emotional eating patterns of youth living in the Caribbean. The aims of this study were to: (1) investigate the correlation between emotional eating and unhealthy eating in Jamaican adolescents (2) evaluate the association between psychological distress (anxiety & …
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Acculturative stress and obesity : the moderating role of emotional eating in a community sample of Latino/a adolescents.
… experiences and negative health outcomes. Emotional eating has been identified as a maladaptive coping mechanism in Latino/a adolescents and has been shown to contribute to increased weight. However, previous studies have investigated neither differenes in emotional eating and stress …
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Exploring emotional eating and its management among Middle Eastern females living in the UK: From exploration to culturally adapted intervention
Rationale: Emotional Eating (EE) is a worldwide concern due to its potential impact on physical health. Despite this, there is a dearth of research and interventions, particularly among the Middle Eastern population whereby cultural differences are overlooked. This research was undertaken in two …
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Managing emotions through eating
Emotional eating plays a significant role in the aetiology of eating disorders and obesity, and has been observed in healthy, non-restrained individuals. Despite this, research that examines emotional eating has mainly focused on females, obese populations and individuals who have a formal …
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Investigating the Role of Eating Behaviour Traits in Behavioural Weight Management Interventions from a Precision Treatment Perspective
… on their personal characteristics, such as their Eating Behaviour Traits (EBTs). EBTs are defined as tendencies determining an individual’s food intake and have previously been linked to the development of obesity. Though early attempts at precision treatments have shown promise, the evidence …
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The Relationship of Infant Feeding and Self-Regulation in Pediatric Obesity
… self-regulation, operationally defined as emotional eating in later childhood, and as measured by the emotional eating scale of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) and BMI was investigated. Lastly, group differences between children who were breastfed or bottlefed in early …
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Analysis of aberrant eating behaviors and body mass index on weight cycling in women
… and dietary restraint, disinhibition, binge eating, emotional eating and body mass index (BMI) while controlling for their simultaneous effects in women selected from a general population. Moreover, the interrelationships between the measures of dietary restraint, disinhibition, binge eating, …
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Towards an Explanation of Overeating Patterns Among Normal Weight College Women: Development and Validation of a Structural Equation Model
… between psychosocial factors and various eating patterns is growing, a model which explains the mechanisms through which these factors may operate is lacking. A model to explain overeating patterns among normal weight college females was developed and tested. The model contained the …
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The interplay between friendship quality and emotion regulation in the prediction of weight-related concerns among adolescent girls
… such as body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, and body surveillance. These issues are often linked to difficulties in emotion regulation (ER) and the quality of friendships. This study explored how ER and friendship quality, both independently and interactively, predict these …
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Family Systems Variables as Predictors of Eating Styles and Body Mass Index
… triangulation, and the relationship between eating and sex. The childhood feeding variables of interest related to the use of food as a reward, coercive use of food, parental disagreement about feeding, the expression of love through food, and feeding enmeshment (i.e., the perception of …
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Comparing guided self-help and self-help acceptance and commitment therapy skills-based internet intervention to manage food cravings: a pilot feasibility study
… dietary control or transitioning to a healthier eating regimen. Furthermore, these cravings often lead to premature discontinuation of weight-loss programmes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) has emerged as an inspiring approach to managing food cravings. A novel direction was to evaluate …
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Reflecting on Racial Microaggressions: The Impact on Food Consumption in Minority Women
… consumption of more food by the thinking group. Emotional eating, but not cognitive reappraisal or emotion suppression, interacted with condition such that those who scored higher on emotional eating and who were in the thinking group ate substantially more than other groups.</p>
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Emotional intelligence in binge eating disorder among the obese population
… between obese individuals with a Binge Eating Disorder (BED-O) and obese individuals without a Binge Eating Disorder (Non-BED-O). The first focus was on investigating whether these two groups of participants have differing levels of (a) the global Emotional Intelligence (EI) trait and …
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Understanding the role of emotion, reward and food preference on the perception of sweet-tasting food using a novel classification task
… Current knowledge about the cognitive and emotional influences on eating preferences is also inconsistent. This study aimed to explore implicit cognitive biases toward various sweet food categories and their connection with explicit behavioural and physiological responses. Using a …
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