ArticleEating behaviors2016
Perceived stress and anhedonia predict short-and long-term weight change, respectively, in healthy adults.
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- Consumption of High-Energy Food and Sugar Shows a Strong Positive Association with Low Mood in Control Subjects and Depressed Patients.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Recording practices of body mass index, overweight and obesity by Dutch general practitioners: an observational study.BMC primary care · 2025Observational
- Greater anhedonia scores in healthy individuals are associated with less decline in 24-hour energy expenditure with fasting: Evidence for a link between behavioral traits and spendthrift phenotype.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Effects of the healthy lifestyle community program (cohort 1) on stress-eating and weight change after 8 weeks: a controlled study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Testing reward processing models of obesity using in-the-moment assessments of subjective enjoyment of food and non-food activities.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- The Relationship between Social Anhedonia and Perceived Pleasure from Food-An Exploratory Investigation on a Consumer Segment with Depression and Anxiety.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Stress-induced hyperphagia: empirical characterization of stress-overeaters.BMC public health · 2022Article
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- Anhedonia, positive affect dysregulation, and risk and maintenance of binge-eating disorder.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Factors Associated With Depressive Episode Recurrences in Primary Care: A Retrospective, Descriptive Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Anhedonia and Body Mass Index Trajectory Groups Among Adolescents.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2018Article
- Depressive symptoms and poorer performance on the Stroop Task are associated with weight gain.Physiology & behavior · 2018Observational
- Obesity, Appetite, and the Prefrontal Cortex.Current obesity reports · 2017Review
- Eight Weeks of Lifestyle Change: What are the Effects of the Healthy Lifestyle Community Programme (Cohort 1) on Cortisol Awakening Response (CAR) and Perceived Stress?Chronic stress (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)Article
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Abstract
objectivePerceived stress; emotional eating; anhedonia; depression and dietary restraint, hunger, and disinhibition have been studied as risk factors for obesity. However, the majority of studies have been cross-sectional and the directionality of these relationships remains unclear. In this longitudinal study, we assess their impact on future weight change.
methodsPsychological predictors of weight change in short- (6month) and long-term (>1year) periods were studied in 65 lean and obese individuals in two cohorts. Subjects participated in studies of food intake and metabolism that did not include any type of medication or weight loss interventions. They completed psychological questionnaires at baseline and weight change was monitored at follow-up visits.
resultsAt six months, perceived stress predicted weight gain (r(2)=0.23, P=0.02). There was a significant interaction (r(2)=.38, P=0.009) between perceived stress and positive emotional eating, such that higher scores in both predicted greater weight gain, while those with low stress but high emotional eating scores lost weight. For long-term, higher anhedonia scores predicted weight gain (r(2)=0.24, P=0.04). Depression moderated these effects such that higher scores in both predicted weight gain but higher depression and lower anhedonia scores predicted weight loss.
conclusionThere are different behavioral determinants for short- and long-term weight change. Targeting perceived stress may help with short-term weight loss while depression and anhedonia may be better targets for long-term weight regulation.
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