Emotional eating is one's behavior in excessive consumption of food, which is caused by negative emotions such as stress, anxiety, and depression and which can cause weight gain. Emotional eating can be affected by various factors including stress level, physical activity, and nutrients such as magnesium. This study aims at determining the relationship between stress level, physical activity, and consumption pattern of magnesium with emotional eating in overweight adolescents. This study used observational analytic method cross sectional design. Its population was overweight and obese adolescents aged 15-18 years old in Surakarta. The subjects were 122 adolescents taken by purposive sampling. Emotional eating data were collected through Eating and Appraisal Due to Emotions and Stress (EADES) questionnaire, consumption pattern of magnesium data were gathered by using non-quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ), and physical activity data were obtained through International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ). Relationship analysis used chi square test with IBM SPSS Statistics 20. The results of show that the stress level had a relationship with the emotional eating in overweight adolescents (p = 0.006), the physical activity had a relationship with the emotional eating in overweight adolescents (p = 0.000), and the consumption pattern of magnesium had a relationship with the emotional eating in overweight adolescents (p = 0.034). Thus, stress level, physical activity, and consumption pattern of magnesium had a relationship with emotional eating in overweight adolescents. Physical activity and consumption pattern of magnesium were the most influential variables on emotional eating in overweight adolescents by 17.8%.
Emotional eating is the propensity to eat in response of negative emotions such as stress, anxiety and depression. Adolescents with overweight may experience an increase in leptin levels as well as disruption of serotonin resulting in disruption of sensitivity in regulating appetite and emotions, thereby causing emotional eating. Emotional eating can be aff ected by several factors including gender and fulfi llment of nutrients such as tryptophan and vitamin B3 as substances that help the production of serotonin in the body. This study aimed to examine the relationship between gender, tryptophan and vitamin B3 consumption patterns with emotional eating in overweight adolescents. This was cross sectional study in adolescents ranges 15–18 years with overweight or obesity status in Surakarta. In total 122 adolescents taken by purposive sampling method. Emotional eating data were obtained from the Eating and Appraisal Due to Emotions and Stress (EADES) questionnaire while the consumption patterns data were obtained using Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ). This study that there was a relationship between tryptophan consumption pattern with emotional eating in overweight adolescents, but there was no relationship between gender and vitamin B3 consumption pattern with emotional eating in overweight adolescents. It can be concluded that there was a relationship between Tryptophan consumption pattern with emotional eating in overweight adolescents and there was no relationship between gender and vitamin B3 consumption pattern with emotional eating in overweight adolescents.
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