Negative emotions and emotional eating: the mediating role of experiential avoidance
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Purpose Emotional eating is a risk factor for eating pathology across the life- and weight-span. Research demonstrates that negative emotions are a precipitant of emotional eating, particularly among female college students. However, the underlying factors that explain this relationship are unclear. Experiential avoidance, a propensity toward being unwilling to remain in contact with aversive private experiences, may explain the association between negative emotions and emotional eating. The purpose of this study was to examine whether experiential avoidance would mediate the association between negative emotions and emotional eating.Methods A sample of 132 women (17.4 % African American, 59.8 % White) completed measures of mood, experiential avoidance and emotional eating. Bias-corrected bootstrapping mediational analyses were conducted.Results Experiential avoidance mediated the relationship between negative emotions and emotional eating b = -0.21, 95 % BC CI [-0.43, -0.07]. The indirect effect through experiential avoidance accounted for 9 % of the variance, which represents a medium effect (k 2 = 0.09, 95 % BC CI [0.03, 0.18]).Conclusions Results suggest that experiential avoidance is important for understanding the relationship between negative emotions and emotional eating and may inform potential strategies for prevention and treatment.
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The link between negative emotions and emotional eating has been well-established both in general and in obese population.
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- Authors
- Litwin, R., Goldbacher, E. M., Cardaciotto, L., & Gambrel, L. E.
- Affiliations
- La Salle University (US)
- Appalachian State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Goldbacher, Edie M.
- Venue
- Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity
- Published
- 2016-07-26
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 97-104
- ISSN
- 1124-4909 (ISSN-L)
- 1590-1262
- OpenAlex
- W2496154857
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 62
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 6.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- emotional eating, negative emotions, experiential avoidance, mediation, women, university students, eating pathology, mood
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Affect, Avoidance Learning, Cross-Sectional Studies, Eating, Emotions, Female, Humans, Young Adult
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