Emotional eating: elusive or evident? Integrating laboratory, psychometric and daily life measures.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Emotional eating (EE) refers to eating in response to (negative) emotions. Evidence for the validity of EE is mixed: some meta-analyses find EE only in eating disordered patients, others only in restrained eaters, which suggest that only certain subgroups show EE. Furthermore, EE measures from lab-based assessments, ecological momentary assessment (EMA), and psychometric measures often diverge. This paper tested whether the covariance of these three different EE methods can be modeled through a single latent variable (factorial validity), and if so, how this variable would relate to restrained eating (construct validity), Body-Mass-Index (BMI), and subclinical eating disorder symptomatology (concurrent validity).

Methods

102 non-eating disordered female participants

SUBMITTER: Schnepper R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10499733 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature