ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
Rumination, mood, and maladaptive eating behaviors in overweight and healthy populations.
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- Emotional Eating and Obesity: An Update and New Insights.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Emotional Dysregulation and Emotional Eating in Hospitalized Adults with Obesity: The Mediating Role of Worry and Rumination.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- A Mobile Ecological Momentary Intervention for Reducing Experiential Avoidance in the Context of Rumination: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Exploring the relationship between dietary quality, eating behavior, and mental health among young adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- An ecological momentary assessment study assessing repetitive negative thinking as a predictor for psychopathology.PloS one · 2025Article
- What Is Food Noise? A Conceptual Model of Food Cue Reactivity.Nutrients · 2023Review
- A scoping review of emotion regulation and inhibition in emotional eating and binge-eating disorder: what about a continuum?Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Snacking and anxiety during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic: A prospective cohort study.Appetite · 2023Article
- Metabolic syndrome, adiposity, diet, and emotional eating are associated with oxidative stress in adolescents.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Repetitive negative thinking during pregnancy and postpartum: Associations with mental health, inflammation, and breastfeeding.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- Dieting and Disinhibited Eating Patterns in Adult Women with Normal Body Weight: Does Rumination Matter?Nutrients · 2021Article
- Perseverative Cognition and Snack Choice: An Online Pilot Investigation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Affect Dysregulation in Context: Implications and Future Directions of Experience Sampling Research on Affect Regulation Models of Loss of Control Eating.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
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purposeThe literature suggests that rumination (i.e., repetitive thinking about 1 or more negative concerns that is perceived as difficult to control) is linked to impaired emotional regulation and increases negative affect. Not only individuals suffering from overweight or obesity, but also healthy individuals might use emotional eating as a coping strategy to deal with negative affect caused by rumination. The aim of the present study was to determine the link between rumination and maladaptive eating strategies in participants with normal weight and overweight/obesity using trait and ecological momentary measures.
methodIn Study 1, 88 individuals from overweight/obese (N = 33) and control group (N = 50) filled in a series of questionnaires assessing trait rumination, and eating behaviors. In Study 2 momentary affect, rumination and eating behavior of 26 participants were assessed using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methodology.
resultsIn Study 1, the moderated mediation model revealed that emotional eating mediates the link between rumination and uncontrolled eating or snacking, but only in healthy participants and not in the participants with overweight. The results of Study 2 suggest that when both momentary rumination and sad mood are entered into the model predicting momentary daily emotional eating, only rumination remains a significant predictor of emotional eating. This relationship is not modified by the fact that the participants are from healthy controls or the overweight/obese group. DISCUSSION: Study 1 provided evidence on the differential role of emotional eating in participants with normal weight and with overweight. Study 2 provided initial insights into the role of momentary mood and momentary repetitive thinking in the use of emotional eating in participants' everyday lives. The differences in group effect in trait and EMA measures indicated also the importance of considering the consciousness of using rumination and emotional eating, while studying those processes in individuals with overweight. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, case-control analytic study.
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