ArticleNutrients2019
Food Addiction Is Associated with Irrational Beliefs via Trait Anxiety and Emotional Eating.
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- From impulsivity to binge eating: the mediating influence of emotional, external, and restrictive eating styles.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Co-occurrence of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and food addiction in a large Polish sample: latent profile analysis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2025Article
- Anxiety, depression, eating behaviors, and irrational food beliefs as predictors of type 2 diabetes risk in Honduran adults.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Emotional eating, internet overuse, and alcohol intake among college students: a pilot study with virtual reality.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Mobile phone dependence among Chinese university students: the contribution of irrational beliefs and solitude.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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- Factors increasing the risk for food addiction in Ecuadorian students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Eating-to-Cope Motives and Uncontrolled Eating as Mediators Between Negative Emotional States and Food Addiction Among Argentinean Young Adults.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2022Article
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- Food Addiction and Emotional Eating Behaviors Co-Occurring with Problematic Smartphone Use in Adolescents?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Anxiety and Food Addiction in Men and Women: Results From the Longitudinal LIFE-Adult-Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Irrational Beliefs, Dietary Habits and 10-Year Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes; the ATTICA Epidemiological Study (2002-2012).The review of diabetic studies : RDS · 2021Article
- Decoding the Role of Gut-Microbiome in the Food Addiction Paradigm.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Foods, Nutrients and Dietary Patterns in Relation to Irrational Beliefs and Related Psychological Disorders: The ATTICA Epidemiological Study.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Separating the Signal from the Noise: How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Are Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet, Emotional Eating, Alcohol Intake, and Anxiety Related in University Students in Spain?Nutrients · 2020Article
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Abstract
Irrational beliefs (IB) are believed, in cognitive behavioral therapies, to be a prime cause of psychopathologies including anxiety, depression, problem eating, and alcohol misuse. "Food addiction" (FA), which has been modeled on diagnostic criteria for substance use disorder, and emotional eating (EE) have both been implicated in the rise in overweight and obesity. Both FA and EE are associated with anxiety. Thus, in the present study, the hypothesis that IB is associated with FA and with EE was tested. Furthermore, possible mediation of these relationships by trait anxiety and depression (and EE for IB and FA) was examined. The responses of 239 adult participants to questionnaires measuring FA, IB, EE, depression, trait anxiety, and anthropometrics were recorded. The results revealed that IB was significantly positively correlated with FA and EE (and depression and trait anxiety). Furthermore, only EE mediated the effect of IB on FA and this was not moderated by BMI. Finally, trait anxiety (but not depression) mediated the effect of IB on EE. Exploratory analysis revealed a significant serial mediation such that IB predicted higher FA via elevated trait anxiety and emotional eating in that order. The results of this study suggest that IB may be a source of the anxiety that is associated with EE and FA and suggest that clinicians may find IB a target for treatment of those persons who report experiences of EE and FA. IB may play a role in food misuse that leads to elevated BMI.
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