Loss of control over eating in overweight youngsters: the role of anxiety, depression and emotional eating.
Abstract
The current study investigated loss of control (LC) over eating and the role of anxiety, depression and emotional eating in a sample of both treatment seeking (N = 115) and non-treatment seeking (N = 73) overweight youngsters (aged 8-18) using a semi-structured clinical interview and self-report questionnaires. It was found that treatment seekers reported twice as much LC (40%) compared to non-treatment seekers (21%). Cross-sectional prediction models indicated that increased anxiety was associated with emotional eating and LC. Emotional eating tended to mediate the relationship between anxiety and LC. Increased depression was associated with emotional eating but not with LC. Especially overweight treatment seekers turn out to be at risk for LC. Because LC may develop as a result of inadequate coping with negative emotions like anxiety, obesity treatment should focus on teaching more effective coping strategies. Longitudinal research is recommended to further elaborate affect regulation and LC.
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Negative emotions are predictors of emotional eating (affect regulation model).
“Similar findings are also consistent with the affect regulation model positing that negative emotions are predictors of emotional eating (Spoor et al., 2007; Goossens et al., 2009).”
From The Mediating Role of Psychological Inflexibility in the Relationship Between Anxiety, Depression, and Emotional Eating in Adult Individuals With Obesity (2022) · cites this paper as Goossens et al., 2009
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- Authors
- Goossens, L., Braet, C., Van Vlierberghe, L., & Mels, S.
- Affiliations
- Ghent University (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Goossens, Lien
- Venue
- European Eating Disorders Review
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-08-26
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 68-78
- ISSN
- 1072-4133 (ISSN-L)
- 1099-0968
- OpenAlex
- W2138231792
- Cited by
- 270
- References
- 56
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.50
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- European Eating Disorders Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Universiteit Gent
- Fonds Spéciaux de Recherche
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- loss of control over eating, emotional eating, anxiety, depression, overweight youth, coping strategies, emotion regulation, mediation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Belgium, Child, Depression, Emotions, Feeding Behavior, Female, Humans, Internal-External Control, Interviews as Topic, Language, Male, Personality Inventory, Surveys and Questionnaires, Overweight
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