Emotional dysregulation moderates the relation between perceived stress and emotional eating in adolescent military dependents.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adolescent children of US service members (i.e., military-dependent youth) face unique stressors that increase risk for various forms of disinhibited eating, including emotional eating. Difficulties with adaptively responding to stress and aversive emotions may play an important role in emotional eating. This study examined emotion dysregulation as a potential moderator of the association between perceived stress and emotional eating in adolescent military dependents.

Method

Participants were military-dependent youth (N = 163, 57.7% female, M_age = 14.5 ± 1.6, M_BMI-z = 1.9 ± 0.4) at risk for adult binge-eating disorder and high weight enrolled in a randomized controlled prevention trial. Prior to intervention, participants completed questionnai

SUBMITTER: Spinner H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11262967 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature