Delay discounting and obesity in food insecure and food secure women.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The relation between food insecurity (FI) and delay discounting (DD) and probability discounting (PD) for food and money was tested in women. In addition, discounting was tested as a variable that mediates the relation between obesity and FI.

Method

Women recruited from a community sample (N = 92) completed questionnaires. They completed the food choice questionnaire, the monetary choice questionnaire, measures for food and money probability discounting (which quantify sensitivity to risk aversion), and demographic measures.

Results

Women with FI had higher rates of obesity and higher food DD compared to food-secure women. However, DD for money or probability discounting for food or money did not significantly differ between FI and food secure groups when c

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8362266 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature