{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["63(5)"],"submitter":["Dominte ME"],"pubmed_abstract":["Recent studies have highlighted high levels of emotional eating during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but have not satisfactorily explained these changing eating patterns. Here, we tested one potential explanatory model broadly based on a biosocial model of emotional eating. Specifically, we examined the extent to which negative emotional reactivity was associated with emotional eating, as well as the mediating role of fear of COVID-19. A total of 474 women from Romania were asked to complete measures of emotional eating, negative emotional reactivity, and fear of COVID-19. Mediation analysis showed that higher negative emotional reactivity was significantly and directly associated with greater emotional eating. This direct relationship was also mediated by fear of COVID-19. These results highlight one possible route through which the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted in elevated rates of emotional eating, though further research is needed."],"journal":["Scandinavian journal of psychology"],"pagination":["462-467"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9347635"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Fear of COVID-19 mediates the relationship between negative emotional reactivity and emotional eating."],"pmcid":["PMC9347635"],"pubmed_authors":["Swami V","Enea V","Dominte ME"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Fear of COVID-19 mediates the relationship between negative emotional reactivity and emotional eating.","description":"Recent studies have highlighted high levels of emotional eating during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but have not satisfactorily explained these changing eating patterns. Here, we tested one potential explanatory model broadly based on a biosocial model of emotional eating. Specifically, we examined the extent to which negative emotional reactivity was associated with emotional eating, as well as the mediating role of fear of COVID-19. A total of 474 women from Romania were asked to complete measures of emotional eating, negative emotional reactivity, and fear of COVID-19. Mediation analysis showed that higher negative emotional reactivity was significantly and directly associated with greater emotional eating. This direct relationship was also mediated by fear of COVID-19. These results highlight one possible route through which the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may have resulted in elevated rates of emotional eating, though further research is needed.","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Oct","modification":"2025-04-19T05:57:24.077Z","creation":"2025-02-18T22:44:07.985Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9347635","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35526105"],"doi":["10.1111/sjop.12828"]}}