Eating Motives and Other Factors Predicting Emotional Overeating during COVID-19 in a Sample of Polish Adults

Nutrients

Paweł Matusik¹  Adriana Modrzejewska²  Justyna Modrzejewska³  Kamila Czepczor-Bernat⁴ 

[1] Department of Pediatrics and Pediatric Endocrinology, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, 40-752 Katowice, Poland;Department of Psychology, Katowice Business University, 40-659 Katowice, Poland;Institute of Pedagogy, University of Bielsko-Biala, 43-309 Bielsko-Biala, Poland;Institute of Psychology, University of Wroclaw, 50-527 Wroclaw, Poland;

关键词: eating motives;    COVID-19-related stress;    affect regulation;    emotional overeating;    COVID-19;   

DOI  :  10.3390/nu13051658

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We hypothesised that the higher levels of emotion-related predictors (eating motive in the form of affect regulation and COVID-19-related stress) would be associated with higher emotional overeating, after accounting for the effects of demographic variables (gender and BMI) and other eating motives (visual- and attitude-related predictors: liking, pleasure, visual appeal; body- and health-related predictors: need and hunger, health, weight control). Participants (N = 868; M_age = 33.53 years, SD = 11.98) completed: the Eating Motivation Survey, the Emotional Overeating Questionnaire, a COVID-19-related stress measure and a socio-demographic survey. The final step of the regression with emotional overeating was significant; affect regulation and COVID-19-related stress were significantly related to emotional overeating (ΔF p < 0.001, Adj. ΔR² = 0.13). During the COVID-19 pandemic, eating can, on the one hand, help to cope with the current difficult situation and the negative emotions associated with it; on the other hand, frequent use of this tendency can lead to rigid regulation of affect and use of this mechanism as the dominant mechanism. Therefore, limited social contact, related disruptions in daily activities and stress resulting from COVID-19 should generate appropriate interventions, not necessarily focusing only on emotional eating, but also on the resources of the individual. It is worth encouraging specialists to implement alternative methods of contact with their patients, e.g., online.

【 授权许可】

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