This study was designed to clarify the relationship between emotion regulation and intuitive eating in 60 obese women (BMI<30) and 60 normal-weight women. There is some significant correlation between the two groups. There is association between unconditional permission to eating subscale and nonacceptance subscale (r= 0.26), strategies subscale and unconditional permission for eating subscale (r= 0.31), Physical emotional eating subscale and strategies subscale (r= 0.30), and also two negative connections between permission for unconditional eating subscale and awareness subscale (r=-0.31), and awareness subscale and Suitable foods election subscale (r=-0.39) in obese women. Other associations are between physical emotional eating subscale and goals subscale(r= 0.29), awareness subscale and Trust in hunger and thirst cues subscale (r=-0.39), and clarity subscale and Trust in hunger and thirst cues subscale (r=-0.35) in normal-weight women. Findings show when obese women have some emotional problems, they cannot accept the situation and do something additional to regulate emotions in the form of unconditional eating.
Obesity is nowadays considered as one of the problems impairing functioning and quality of life. Obesity is defined by body mass index (BMI), and most studies on the association between psychiatric disorders and obesity have exclusively studied depression. But there are just a few researchers that have studied the association between obesity and anxiety, and the mechanism of this association remains unclear. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which the association between chronic pain and obesity are mediated by anxiety and moderated by coping strategies. The study population comprised 200 participants (100 male and 100 female) aged between 20 and70 (M=45) years old. All participants completed the Pain Self-Management Checklist, Beck Anxiety Inventory-II, and Lazarus Coping Skills Scale. The statistically significant paths were anxiety-pain, pain-obesity, and anxiety-emotional coping strategies (p<0/005). In summary, chronic pain predicted obesity directly, and specific coping strategies (emotional coping strategies) did not moderate the relationship between chronic pain, obesity and anxiety, but anxiety mediated this relationship.
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