ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2026
Associations Among Sleep, Emotional Eating, and Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents.
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- Psychometric properties of the Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ) in a clinical sample of Turkish adolescents.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
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- Sleep disturbances as an early indicator of psychotic disorders in adolescents and young adults.Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience · 2026Review
- Body image dissatisfaction and emotional eating across age and weight status: a comparative cross-sectional study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Loneliness, problematic digital media use, and nutritional-metabolic vulnerability in adolescents from single-parent households: an integrative review of eating- and sleep-related pathways.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Disordered eating behaviors among female undergraduates in Sichuan, China: key associated factors from a province-wide survey.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Personalized models of eating disorder symptoms and suicide risk in anorexia nervosa spectrum disorders: protocol for a longitudinal, passive-sensing study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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- Body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors in Chinese female undergraduate students: the mediating role of emotional regulation strategies.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
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- A biopsychosocial approach to sleep health during puberty: Individual and contextual aspects and the role of gender differences. A narrative review.Cogent mental health · 2025Review
- Are Sleep Parameters and Chronotype Associated with Eating Disorder Risk? A Cross-Sectional Study of University Students in Spain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
The literature on adolescent sleep has shown a bidirectional relationship between sleep difficulties and altered eating habits, including emotional eating. However, it is unclear if this relationship is related to preexisting body concerns, or if poor sleep is the prime contributor to emotional eating patterns. This study therefore seeks to examine body dissatisfaction as a moderator of the sleep-emotional eating relationship in an at-risk sample. Adolescents (N = 106) presenting for overnight polysomnography self-reported on time-in-bed, insomnia, body dissatisfaction, and emotional eating. Less time-in-bed was correlated with a greater desire for thinness and greater insomnia severity was related to overall emotional eating and eating in response to anxiety, anger, and frustration and in response to depression. Moderation analyses revealed that the relationships between time-in-bed and eating in response to feeling unsettled (b = -.002, 95% CI[- .003, - .001], p < .005) and eating in response to anxiety, anger, and frustration (b = -.01, 95% CI[- .01, - .001], p < .05) were exacerbated by worse body dissatisfaction. Optimizing sleep may attenuate the risk for disordered eating, particularly for adolescents with high body dissatisfaction.
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