Emotional eating, the tendency to eat when experiencing negative affect, is prevalent in morbid obesity and may indicate that ways to deal with emotions are disturbed. Our aim was to compare emotion processing and regulation between 102 women with morbid obesity who apply for bariatric surgery and 102 women from the general population (control group) and to examine in the group with morbid obesity the association of emotion processing and regulation with emotional eating. The group with morbid obesity reported higher scores on difficulty identifying feelings (alexithymia, p = 0.002) and suppression of emotions (p = 0.003) than the control group. In the women with morbid obesity, more negative affect and a higher difficulty identifying feelings were correlated with more emotional eating (r = 0.36 and r = 0.35, p < 0.001). Our study suggests that negative emotions and unhealthy emotion processing may play a role in emotional eating, and it indicates the possible relevance of emotion processing and emotional regulation as initiating or perpetuating mechanisms in morbid obesity.
BackgroundPhysical activity after bariatric surgery is associated with sustained weight loss and improved quality of life. Some bariatric patients engage insufficiently in physical activity. This may be due to exercise cognitions, i.e., specific beliefs about benefits of and barriers to physical exercise. The aim of this study was to examine whether and to what extent both physical activity and exercise cognitions changed at 1 and 2 years post-surgery and whether exercise cognitions predict physical activity.MethodsForty-two bariatric patients (38 women, 4 men; mean age 38 ± 8 years, mean body mass index prior to surgery 47 ± 6 kg/m2) filled out self-report instruments to examine physical activity and exercise cognitions pre- and post-surgery.ResultsA large increase in physical activity and favorable changes in exercise cognitions were observed after surgery, viz. a decrease of fear of injury and embarrassment and an increase of the perception of exercise benefits and confidence in exercising. Perceiving less exercise benefits and having less confidence in exercising before surgery predicted less physical activity 2 years after surgery. High fear of injury 1 year after surgery predicted less physical activity 2 years after surgery.ConclusionsAfter bariatric surgery, favorable changes in physical activity and beliefs about the benefits and barriers of exercising are observed. Our results suggest that targeting exercise cognitions before and after surgery might be relevant to improve physical activity.
The words we use in everyday language reveal our thoughts, feelings, personality, and motivations. Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is a software program to analyse text by counting words in 66 psychologically meaningful categories that are catalogued in a dictionary of words. This article presents the Dutch translation of the dictionary that is part of the LIWC 2007 version. It describes and explains the LIWC instrument and it compares the Dutch and English dictionaries on a corpus of parallel texts. The Dutch and English dictionaries were shown to give similar results in both languages, except for a small number of word categories. Correlations between word counts in the two languages were high to very high, while effect sizes of the differences between word counts were low to medium. The LIWC 2007 categories can now be used to analyse Dutch language texts.
De woorden die mensen in het dagelijkse leven gebruiken kunnen belangrijke aspecten van hun sociale en psychologische functioneren weerspiegelen. Met tekstanalyse kunnen onderliggende psychologische processen in gesproken en geschreven teksten worden onderzocht. De Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is een computerprogramma voor tekstanalyse. Het doel van het onderzoek beschreven in dit artikel was om tot een eerste vaststelling van de validiteit van de Nederlandse versie van de LIWC te komen. In een experimenteel 'cross-over design' kregen deelnemers gestandaardiseerde instructies om in een experimentele conditie te praten over hun allerdiepste gevoelens ten aanzien van een persoonlijke emotionele gebeurtenis, en in een controleconditie objectief verslag te doen van hun activiteiten van de vorige dag. Berekeningen van de interne consistentie binnen de experimentele conditie en de test-herteststabiliteit over de experimentele en controleconditie gaven inzicht in de mate waarin de verschillende woordcategoriee¨n van de LIWC stabiele individuele verschillen reflecteren. Op groepsniveau differentieerde de LIWC tussen emotionele en nietemotionele teksten en vonden we de verwachte samenhang tussen tellingen van emotionele woorden met de LIWC en een ander instrument voor het meten van expressie van emoties. LIWC-tellingen van woordgebruik in de experimentele situatie vertoonden enige samenhang met stemming, maar niet met individuele stijlen van expressie zoals vastgesteld met een vragenlijst. De Nederlandse versie van de LIWC is een valide instrument dat gebruikt kan worden in onderzoek naar expressie van emoties en in andere studies naar verbale expressie in de Nederlandse taal.
This group could perhaps be helped by tailoring postoperative guidance to the stage of change of an individual patient. Counseling could include increasing awareness of the need to self-control eating and offering assistance to turn intentions into action and to deal with stress, emotions and physical problems.
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