Low eating self-efficacy is associated with unfavorable eating behavior tendencies among individuals with overweight and obesity.

ABSTRACT: Success in long-term weight management depends partly on psychological and behavioral aspects. Understanding the links between psychological factors and eating behavior tendencies is needed to develop more effective weight management methods. This population-based cross-sectional study examined whether eating self-efficacy (ESE) is associated with cognitive restraint (CR), uncontrolled eating (UE), emotional eating (EE), and binge eating (BE). The hypothesis was that individuals with low ESE have more unfavorable eating behavior tendencies than individuals with high ESE. Participants were classified as low ESE and high ESE by the Weight-Related Self-Efficacy questionnaire (WEL) median cut-off point. Eating behavior tendencies were assessed with Three Factor Eating Questionnaire R-18 and Bi

SUBMITTER: Oikarinen N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10182077 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature