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Emotional openness, problematic eating behaviours, and overweight in adolescents

Overweight, a common health condition in adolescence, has been linked with difficulties in emotional processing. This study investigates associations between emotional processing, conceptualised through the model of Emotional Openness (EO), problematic eating behaviours, including Eating in the Absence of Hunger and disinhibited eating, and overweight in adolescents. Several self-report instruments were completed by 160 youngsters (mean age: 14.36 ± 0.61 years) from the community, including 39 overweight and obese adolescents (24.5%). In girls, bootstrap analyses supported a mediating effect of restrained eating on the relation between three EO dimensions and body mass index percentile, in particular the communication of emotions, the cognitive-conceptual representation of emotions, and the perception of bodily indicator of emotions. No mediating effect was found in boys. These results have important implications for psychological weight management interventions, as they underline the relevance of work on emotional processing in order to reduce problematic eating behaviours.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa.de:bsz:15-qucosa-206051
Date28 June 2016
CreatorsWalther, Mireille, Hilbert, Anja
ContributorsUniversität Freiburg, Departement für Heil- und Sonderpädagogik, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie
PublisherUniversitätsbibliothek Leipzig
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typedoc-type:article
Formatapplication/pdf
SourceEating behaviors (2015)17, S. 111-114

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