Abstract:
Objective: Many people, especially women, indulge in eating unhealthy food to cope with
stress. Emotional eating may contribute to obesity and different eating disorders like bulimia
nervosa and binge eating disorder. The present study aimed to investigate the role of emotion
dysregulation in emotional eating behavior.
Methods: A sample of 700 adults between the ages of 18 to 50 years was selected via purposeful
sampling method. The participants completed Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, Childhood
Trauma Questionnaire, and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. The data were analyzed by
Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis.
Results: Pearson correlation coefficient indicated a significant and positive correlation between
emotion dysregulation and emotional eating behavior (r=0.30; P<0.001). Also, there was a
significant and positive correlation between childhood trauma and emotional eating behavior
(r=0.19; P<0.001). The results of regression analysis also showed that emotion dysregulation
is the strongest predictor of emotional eating behavior.
Conclusion: Our findings suggest that emotion dysregulation is a key mechanism in the
development of emotional eating in individuals.
Machine summary:
"<H1>Research Paper: Role of Emotional Dysregulation and Childhood Trauma in Emotional Eating Behavior CrossMark</H1> Negin Ansari1*, Shima Shakiba1, Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh Mousavi1, Parvaneh Mohammadkhani1, Sarah Aminoroaya1, Naser Sabzain Poor2 1.
:: Article info: Received: 11 May 2017 Accepted: 19 Sep. 2017 Keywords: Childhood, Psychological trauma, Emotion regulation, Eating <H3>A B S T R A C T</H3> Objective: Many people, especially women, indulge in eating unhealthy food to cope with stress.
The participants completed Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale.
One of the important factors in emotional eating behav- ior is emotional dysregulation, which is defined as a diffi- culty in the regulation of affective states and self-control in emotion-related behaviors (Mennin, Heimberg, Turk, &amp; Fresco, 2005).
Exposure to child- hood trauma is largely associated with a group of de- velopmental and psychological outcomes in adulthood (Cicchetti, Rogosch, Gunnar, &amp; Toth, 2010; Heim &amp; Nemeroff, 2001), such as eating disorders and addiction (Burns, Fischer, Jackson, &amp; Harding, 2012).
People who have experienced maltreatment in their childhood are at a higher risk for using maladaptive coping strategies, in- cluding stress-induced emotional eating (Evers, Stok, &amp; de Ridder, 2010).
Individuals exposed to interpersonal trauma during childhood face greater difficulties in emotion regulation (Cloitre, Miranda, Stovall-McClough, &amp; Han, 2005; Van der Kolk, Roth, Pelcovitz, Sunday, &amp; Spinazzola, 2005).
Therefore, based on the results of previous studies, in- cluding the findings of Corstorphine, Waller, Lawson, and Ganis (2007), we can conclude that when children experience trauma, they will find difficulties in emotion regulation and use of proper strategies."
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