ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2017
Negative emotions and emotional eating: the mediating role of experiential avoidance.
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The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and a Mobile App on Emotional Eating, Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Flexibility in Overweight Individuals
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The relationship between adverse childhood experiences and emotional eating behaviors among college students: mediated by perceived stress and depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- The Mediating Effect of Coping Strategies and Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Impulsivity, Metacognition, and Eating Disorders.Nutrients · 2024Article
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- Development and validation of the Pain-Induced Comfort Eating Scale in a chronic pain sample.Canadian journal of pain = Revue canadienne de la douleur · 2024Article
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- New Insights and Potential Therapeutic Interventions in Metabolic Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
purposeEmotional eating is a risk factor for eating pathology across the life- and weight-span. Research demonstrates that negative emotions are a precipitant of emotional eating, particularly among female college students. However, the underlying factors that explain this relationship are unclear. Experiential avoidance, a propensity toward being unwilling to remain in contact with aversive private experiences, may explain the association between negative emotions and emotional eating. The purpose of this study was to examine whether experiential avoidance would mediate the association between negative emotions and emotional eating.
methodsA sample of 132 women (17.4 % African American, 59.8 % White) completed measures of mood, experiential avoidance and emotional eating. Bias-corrected bootstrapping mediational analyses were conducted.
resultsExperiential avoidance mediated the relationship between negative emotions and emotional eating b = -0.21, 95 % BC CI [-0.43, -0.07]. The indirect effect through experiential avoidance accounted for 9 % of the variance, which represents a medium effect (k
conclusionsResults suggest that experiential avoidance is important for understanding the relationship between negative emotions and emotional eating and may inform potential strategies for prevention and treatment.
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