Psychosocial predictors of emotional eating and their weight-loss treatment-induced changes in women with obesity

Annesi, James J.; Mareno, Nicole; McEwen, Kristin L.

doi:10.1007/s40519-015-0209-9

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“…These findings contrast with analyses from this same trial including the entire pool of participants (i.e., BMI ≥30kg/m 2 ), which found that poor motivation for physical activity was associated with decreased weight loss [30]. Other studies have found that certain psychosocial characteristics, including higher self-efficacy to initiate exercise [31], emotional eating [32] and lack of autonomous regulation [33], are associated with less weight loss. Our findings suggest that despite having positive intentions and self-belief in their ability to make behavior change, patients with severe obesity may encounter other barriers to weight loss that patients with class I obesity do not experience.…”

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Patient predictors of weight loss following a behavioral weight management intervention among US Veterans with severe obesity

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Patient predictors of weight loss following a behavioral weight management intervention among US Veterans with severe obesity

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“…Therefore, according to previous research results obtained by Micanti et al [ 10 ] and Annesi et al [ 66 ], snacking and emotional eating might be crucial for interventions related to changing eating behaviours, but not only for people with excessive weight. By addressing these problematic eating behaviours, future research should include longitudinal research to help recognise better mechanisms to change eating behaviours among individuals with various BMI levels (which may be in different stages of behavior change for weight loss, diet and exercise).…”

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Food-related behaviours among individuals with overweight/obesity and normal body weight

Brytek-Matera

Czepczor-Bernat

Olejniczak

2018

Nutr J

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BackgroundEmotional eating is a factor associated with a negative body image and other problematic eating behaviours. In this context little is known about differences between individuals with overweight and obesity and those with normal body weight. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the role of emotional eating in the relationship between the desire to consume chocolate and the wish to avoid social situations related to food and body exposures. For this purpose, we tested the direct, indirect and buffer effects. In addition, we used moderated mediation by introducing snacking into the model.MethodsThe study included 123 outpatients with excessive body weight and 123 individuals with normal weight. The mean of body mass index (BMI) in the first group was 30.19 kg/m2 (SD = 4.37) and, in the second, it was 23.02 kg/m2 (SD = 1.20). The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire, the Attitudes to Chocolate Questionnaire and the Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire were used.ResultsResults show that in all individuals, the greater emotional eating is, the greater the desire for chocolate consumption and avoidance of social situations related to food and body exposures are. In addition, the desire for chocolate consumption are positively associated with avoidance of social situations related to food and body exposures in both group. Among individuals with excessive and normal body weight, emotional eating is a significant mediator in the relationship between desire for chocolate consumption and avoidance of social situations related to food and body exposures. However, it does not moderate the relationship between these variables. Outcomes show that there is a significant model of moderated mediation of the link between social situation–avoidance related to food and body exposure and the desire to consume chocolate through emotional eating, moderated by snacking among individuals with normal body weight. A similar effect has not been discovered in the group with excessive body weight.ConclusionThe presented results show that among people with varied BMI categories, emotional eating is connected to craving chocolate and avoidance of social situations related to food and body exposure that plays only the role of mediation. In addition, snacking is crucial for this relationship among the group with normal body weight.

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“…Emotional eating is defined as the tendency to eat more in response to negative emotions [9,10] and it is a risk factor for the development of many eating pathologies, such as binge-eating disorder, bulimia nervosa and food cravings [11,12]. Several studies showed that emotional eating is associated with unhealthy lifestyles, characterized by the consumption of high-calorie and high fat foods, poor weight loss outcomes, weight gain and obesity [13][14][15]. Furthermore, in another study by Wong and Qian (2016), it has also been shown, that shame, as a self-conscious emotion, played an important role in emotional eating.…”

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Influence of Emotional Determinants on the Food Choices of the Portuguese

Guiné

Ferrão

Correia

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EUREKA: Social and Humanities

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Food choices are influenced by many factors, such as emotional. When people eat, driven by emotional factors, they often lose control, which may lead to eating disorders. Therefore, this work aimed at studying the influence that emotional determinants had on people's food choices. It was undertaken a descriptive cross-sectional study by means of a questionnaire on a non-probabilistic sample of 1314 participants. The data was collected among a sample of the Portuguese population and measured if people´s food choices were influenced by emotional determinants. The results revealed that the participants' food choices were, in general, slightly influenced by emotional determinants (mean scores between-0.5 and 0.5, on a scale from-2 to +2). There were found significant differences in all of the variables under study. The participants, who already experienced an episode of binge-eating, were the ones that obtained the highest mean score (0.63±0.79), meaning that in this case those participants' food choices were influenced by emotional determinants. These results support the premise that emotional determinants are influenced by the characteristics of each individual and also the existence of a positive association between emotional eating and the presence of eating disorders, especially, binge-eating.

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Psychosocial predictors of emotional eating and their weight-loss treatment-induced changes in women with obesity

Abstract: Findings suggest that weight-loss interventions should target specific psychosocial factors to improve emotional eating. The administration of cognitive-behavioral methods through personal contact might be more beneficial for those improvements than self-help formats.

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Patient predictors of weight loss following a behavioral weight management intervention among US Veterans with severe obesity

Patient predictors of weight loss following a behavioral weight management intervention among US Veterans with severe obesity

Food-related behaviours among individuals with overweight/obesity and normal body weight

Influence of Emotional Determinants on the Food Choices of the Portuguese

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