Networks of stress, affect and eating behaviour: anticipated stress coping predicts goal-congruent eating in young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many people aim to eat healthily. Yet, affluent food environments encourage consumption of energy dense and nutrient-poor foods, making it difficult to accomplish individual goals such as maintaining a healthy diet and weight. Moreover, goal-congruent eating might be influenced by affects, stress and intense food cravings and might also impinge on these in turn. Directionality and interrelations of these variables are currently unclear, which impedes targeted intervention. Psychological network models offer an exploratory approach that might be helpful to identify unique associations between numerous variables as well as their directionality when based on longitudinal time-series data.

Methods

Across 14 days, 84 diet-interested participants (age range: 18-38 years

SUBMITTER: Pannicke B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7796605 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature