Trait negative affect interacts with ovarian hormones to predict risk for emotional eating.

ABSTRACT: Ovarian hormones significantly influence dysregulated eating in females. However, most women do not develop appreciable disordered eating, suggesting that ovarian hormones may not affect all women equally. We examined whether individual differences in trait negative affect (NA) moderate ovarian hormone-dysregulated eating associations in 446 women who provided saliva samples for hormone measurements and ratings of NA and emotional eating daily for 45 consecutive days. Women were at greatest risk for emotional eating when they had high trait NA and experienced a hormonal milieu characterized by low estradiol or high progesterone. While effects were evident in all women, the combination of high trait NA and high progesterone was particularly risky for women with a history of clinically signi

SUBMITTER: Mikhail ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7983867 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature