The Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C): development and preliminary validation of a short-form

Limbers, Christine A.; Larson, Maddie; Young, Danielle; Simmons, Stephanie

doi:10.1080/10640266.2019.1580124

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“…For example, the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire is 33 items long and the Emotional Eating Scale for Children and Adolescents is 25 items long. To address this issue, a short form of the Emotional Eating Scale for Children and Adolescents was recently developed [18]. This short form has demonstrated good internal consistency reliability, a high degree of overlapping variance with the original Emotional Eating Scale for Children and Adolescents Total Score and Subscale Scores, construct validity, and a unidimensional factor structure [18,19].The existence of a brief, psychometrically sound measure of emotional eating for adolescents may facilitate the assessment of this construct in weight-loss interventions as well as population-wide studies that focus on adolescent health.…”

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Emotional Eating and Weight Status in Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Limbers

Summers

2021

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Background: Despite evidence that emotional eating is associated with weight gain in adults, less is known about this association in adolescents. The purpose of the current study was to conduct a systematic review to assess the association between emotional eating and weight status in adolescents. This study also sought to describe existing measures of emotional eating in adolescents and explore weight-loss interventions that assessed emotional eating in relation to weight status in this population. Methods: Two independent reviewers searched the database PubMed for published or in press peer-reviewed studies that assessed the association between emotional eating and weight status in adolescents aged 12 to 19 years. Studies were excluded from this review if they were not written in the English language, did not include a measure of emotional eating, or were a dissertation study. Results: A total of 13 studies met full inclusion criteria and were included in the systematic review. Of the six longitudinal studies in the review, only one found a prospective association between emotional eating and weight status. The Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire was the most widely used measure of emotional eating in the systematic review (n = 6; 46.2%). The one intervention study included in this review found that baseline emotional eating was not associated with weight outcomes 2 years following gastric bypass surgery in obese Swedish adolescents (13–18 years). Conclusions: While there were some inconsistent findings across the studies included in this review, taken as a whole, the results largely do not support an association between emotional eating and elevated weight status or reduced weight loss in adolescents.

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Emotional Eating and Weight Status in Adolescents: A Systematic Review

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2021

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“…To analyze emotional variables, questionnaires that assess fear, anxiety and sadness were taken into account. Such as the KIDSCREEN (28) (29), the Liebowitz social anxiety scale (30), the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) (31) (32) or the Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C) (33). Given the relationship of this emotional situation with somatization (34) (35) it was also included as an emotional variable.…”

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Emotional impact on children during home confinement in Spain

Sánchez-Ferrer

Cervantes-García

Gavilán-Martín

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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about important changes. On March 14, 2020, a strict home confinement was decreed in Spain. Children did not attend school and were not allowed to leave their homes. The aim of this study was to determine the emotional state of these children, as well as associated factors.Material and methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted using an online questionnaire sent by cell phone. This survey includes sociodemographic items and questions concerning the emotional impact of the lockdown. With the questions on emotions, two categories of emotional state were established with the variables fear, irritability, sadness and somatization: those who were less or more emotionally affected. A multivariate logistic model was used to estimate the associations between the variables.Results: A total of 3890 responses were obtained. The mean age of the children was 6.47 years (range 0 to 17). A score indicating poor emotional state was reported by 40.12%. The multivariate logistic model for poor emotional state was directly associated with having less appetite, sleep disturbances, and with parents’ beliefs that their child will have difficulties returning to normal life after lockdown. A better emotional state was associated with being an only child, access to outdoor spaces at home, having pets, and parents informing their children about the pandemic using creative explanations.Conclusions: During strict home confinement, a considerable emotional impact was observed in children as described by their parents. Specific elements were associated with a better or poorer emotional state.

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Associations Among Sleep, Emotional Eating, and Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents

White,

Triplett,

Morales

et al. 2024

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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The literature on adolescent sleep has shown a bidirectional relationship between sleep difficulties and altered eating habits, including emotional eating. However, it is unclear if this relationship is related to preexisting body concerns, or if poor sleep is the prime contributor to emotional eating patterns. This study therefore seeks to examine body dissatisfaction as a moderator of the sleep-emotional eating relationship in an at-risk sample. Adolescents (N = 106) presenting for overnight polysomnography self-reported on time-in-bed, insomnia, body dissatisfaction, and emotional eating. Less time-in-bed was correlated with a greater desire for thinness and greater insomnia severity was related to overall emotional eating and eating in response to anxiety, anger, and frustration and in response to depression. Moderation analyses revealed that the relationships between time-in-bed and eating in response to feeling unsettled (b = −.002, 95% CI[− .003, − .001], p < .005) and eating in response to anxiety, anger, and frustration (b = −.01, 95% CI[− .01, − .001], p < .05) were exacerbated by worse body dissatisfaction. Optimizing sleep may attenuate the risk for disordered eating, particularly for adolescents with high body dissatisfaction.

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The Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C): development and preliminary validation of a short-form

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Emotional Eating and Weight Status in Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Emotional Eating and Weight Status in Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Emotional impact on children during home confinement in Spain

Associations Among Sleep, Emotional Eating, and Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents

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