Journal
APPETITE
Volume 58, Issue 2, Pages 563-566Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.01.012
Keywords
Emotional eating; Food intake; Obesity
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [K23 HL073381]
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We assessed the validity of the emotional eating scale (EES) by examining whether the EES predicted food intake following two negative mood inductions. Participants underwent mood inductions for anxiety, anger and neutral mood, then received snack foods in a sham palatability test. EES anxiety, but not anger, predicted intake. Participants high on EES anxiety consumed more snacks during the anxiety mood induction, whereas participants low on EES anxiety consumed less snacks. Results suggest that EES anxiety is a predictor of anxiety-driven eating and may be used to assess emotional eating when direct observation of intake is not possible. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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