Risk Factors of Emotional Eating among Undergraduates
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-case14020597232021-08-03T06:25:18Z Risk Factors of Emotional Eating among Undergraduates Ho, Alan Psychology While food quenches one’s hunger, it also assuages feelings. When food is eaten to satisfy one’s feelings instead of satisfying hunger, it results in emotional eating which is associated with negative consequences such as increased risk for heart disease, symptoms of anxiety and depression, and increased risk of obesity. This study examined the risk factors of emotional eating in hopes of giving clinicians a better understanding on how to prevent or lesson emotional eating. There are a myriad of risk factors to emotional eating. Studying emotional eating is complex because it is influenced by many factors such as food preferences, genetics, culture, psychology, and the social and physical environment. Thus, there are many more risk factors than what is being studied here. However, this study attempts to add to the existing psychology literature in emotional eating. Using survey assessments, this study examined whether parental bonding was associated with emotional eating in non-clinical college students who lived among their peers instead of their family. Furthermore, this study investigated whether one’s level of adjustment to college was associated with emotional eating. In addition, an attempt to replicate previous associations between coping style, one’s transition to college, and parental bonding was performed using measures that allowed for more detailed analysis and in order to use these variables as predictors in a multiple regression. Results indicated that perceived parental bonding and level of adjustment to college had no meaningful association with emotional eating. However, gender and race differences in emotional eating were identified. Additionally, gender, race, avoidance coping and socially-supported coping predicted 27% of the variance seen in emotional eating suggesting that in order to curb emotional eating, therapy should concentrate on learning effective coping styles. In addition, this study may also help clinicians and dieticians alike better understand the risks that lead to emotional eating. 2014-09-02 English text Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1402059723 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1402059723 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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