Emotional Eating in Preschoolers
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu12761797892021-08-03T05:29:13Z Emotional Eating in Preschoolers Meers, Molly R. Psychology emotional eating eating in the absence of hunger preschoolers The purpose of the current study was to determine whether emotional eating occurs in preschoolers using a behavioral measure. Based on Macht’s (2007) five-way model of how emotions affect eating behavior, it was hypothesized that some preschoolers would increase food intake due to moderate negative emotions. This study utilized an eating in the absence of hunger research paradigm to measure the difference in caloric intake between negative and neutral mood induction conditions. The current study also examined the relationship between emotional eating and parental feeding behaviors, own eating behaviors, and the child’s emotion regulation skills. Thirty 4- to 6-year-old children and the parent most involved with feeding were recruited for this study. Emotional eating was not pervasive in this sample. However, there were noteworthy individual differences associated with consuming a greater amount of calories in the negative mood condition than in the neutral mood condition. Child self-report of emotional eating was more predictive of greater caloric intake in the negative mood condition than was parent-report of the child’s emotional eating. In addition, individual differences in emotion regulation skills were more predictive of greater caloric intake in the negative mood condition than parents own eating and feeding behaviors. However, when parent report of emotional eating was used as the emotional eating outcome variable rather than the behavioral measure, parental feeding for emotion regulation was most predictive of greater caloric intake in the negative mood condition. 2010-08-03 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276179789 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276179789 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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