ArticleJournal of behavioral medicine2019
The role of emotional eating in the links between racial discrimination and physical and mental health.
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- Gendered racial microaggressions, self-silencing, and disordered eating in Black women.Body image · 2025Article
- Structural and social determinants of dementia risk among adults racialized as Black: Results from a community-based system dynamics approach.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025Article
- The recent trends in discrimination and health among ethnic minority adolescents: an integrative review.BMC public health · 2025Review
- Intersections of Racial/Ethnic and Religious Identities on Bodily Well-Being for Black College-Attending Emerging Adults.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Racial socialization and discrimination-related psychological distress in middle-aged Black men and women.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2023Article
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- Race, Lifetime SES, and Allostatic Load Among Older Adults.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2022Article
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- Evaluating hypothesized explanations for the Black-white depression paradox: A critical review of the extant evidence.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Review
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- Moderating Effects of Parental Feeding Practices and Emotional Eating on Dietary Intake among Overweight African American Adolescents.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Explaining the Black-white depression paradox: Interrogating the Environmental Affordances Model.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Sex Differences in the Impact of Racial Discrimination on Mental Health Among Black Americans.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
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Abstract
The environmental affordances (EA) model posits that maladaptive self-regulatory strategies (e.g., emotional eating) directly and indirectly heighten African Americans' risk for downstream medical morbidities while also potentially mitigating the psychological impact of stressors. We empirically tested the full EA model. In doing so, we investigated the associations among racial discrimination, depressive symptomatology, and physical health proxies as well as the intervening role of emotional eating in these associations among 150 African Americans aged 18-27. The increased frequency of experiencing racial discrimination was significantly associated with poorer self-reported health, greater depressive symptomatology, and more emotional eating. There was no significant association between emotional eating and physical health and emotional eating did not mediate the relation between racial discrimination and physical health. Finally, racial discrimination was associated with depressive symptomatology, but only among African Americans with mean or high levels of emotional eating.
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