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ArticleFrontiers in public health2026

Sociocultural considerations in food addiction and emotional eating: comparative evidence from college students in the United States and South Korea.

Aidan Mahoney, Susan Sugarman, Kaylee Hough, Attila Szabo, Nicole Avena

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Aidan MahoneyDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States.
Susan SugarmanDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States.
Kaylee HoughDepartment of Neuroscience, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States.
Attila SzaboFaculty of Health and Sport Sciences, Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary.
Nicole AvenaDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Food addiction and emotional eating are two eating-related constructs that have been linked to obesity and poor mental health, but the extent to which they reliably co-occur across different cultural contexts is less clear. Given that sociocultural norms and food environments differ between countries, this study examined whether food addiction and emotional eating are associated in undergraduate samples from the United States (

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Cross-Cultural ComparisonEmotional EatingFood AddictionStudentsAdolescentAdultCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleRepublic of KoreaUnited StatesUniversitiesYoung Adultcross-cultural comparisonemotional eatingfood addictionSouth Koreaultra-processed foodsundergraduate students

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PMID42780105
PMCPMC13597360

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