Emotional Eating and Weight in Adults: A Review
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Unhealthy and dysfunctional eating habits could be related to a failure in emotional regulation strategies that leads individuals to eat in response to difficult emotions, as in emotional eating.
“Evidence from the literature suggests that unhealthy and dysfunctional eating habits could be related to a failure in emotional regulation strategies that leads individuals to eat in response to difficult emotions, as in the case of emotional eating defined as the tendency to eat in response to negative feelings [16].”
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- Authors
- Frayn, M., & Knäuper, B.
- Affiliations
- McGill University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Frayn, Mallory
- ORCID
- Frayn, Mallory
- Venue
- Current Psychology
- Published
- 2017-03-15
- Volume
- 37
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 924-933
- ISSN
- 1046-1310 (ISSN-L)
- 1936-4733
- OpenAlex
- W2608809495
- Cited by
- 307
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 30 · 2025: 46 · 2024: 43 · 2023: 51 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3
- FWCI
- 14.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Current Psychology (publishedVersion)
- 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
- emotional eating, weight gain, weight loss, weight loss maintenance, eating behavior assessment, Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, eating disorder intervention, adults
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