Assessing Yourself as an Emotional Eater: Mission Impossible?
Assessing Yourself as an Emotional Eater: Mission Impossible?
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DOI：
10.1037/a0016700
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发表时间：
2009-11-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Adriaanse, Marieke A.
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作者：
Evers, Catharine;de Ridder, Denise T. D.;Adriaanse, Marieke A.
目的：人们情绪化进食的程度通常通过人们在经历负面情绪时自我报告的进食欲望来评估。这些情绪化进食者量表上的分数升高与饮食病理学和肥胖有关。然而，在这些量表上得分高的人在情感接触中确实增加了食物摄入量的证据是不确定的。目前的研究测试了情绪化进食者量表是否能捕捉到情绪化时进食的倾向。设计图：在四个实验中，不同的情绪诱导程序，女性参与者被随机分配到消极情绪或控制条件。在控制条件下，积极的或没有情绪被诱导。接下来，通过假口味测试评估食物消耗量。主要观察指标：情绪化进食者的状态、情绪体验和不同食物类型的实际消耗量。结果如下：与控制条件或热判断自己为情绪化进食者的个人相比，将自己描述为情绪化进食者的个人在情绪化遭遇期间并没有增加食物摄入。结论：研究结果表明，自我报告的情绪进食者在实验室的情绪遭遇中不会增加食物摄入量。这些研究结果的影响进行了讨论，包括充分评估自己的情绪饮食行为可能是复杂的想法。
Objective: The extent to which individuals are emotional eaters has typically been assessed by people's self-reported desire to eat when they experience negative emotions. Elevated scores on these emotional eater scales have been associated with eating pathology and obesity. However, evidence that individuals scoring high on these scales truly increase their food intake during emotional encounters is inconclusive. The current studies tested whether emotional eater scales capture the proposed tendency to eat when feeling emotional. Design: In four experiments with different emotion induction procedures, female participants were randomly assigned to negative emotion or control conditions. In the control conditions positive or no emotions were induced. Next, food consumption was assessed by bogus taste tests. Main Outcome Measures: Emotional eater status, emotional experience, and actual consumption of different food types. Results: Individuals describing themselves as emotional eaters did not increase food intake during emotional encounters as compared to control conditions or individuals Hot judging themselves as emotional eaters. Conclusion: The results suggest that self-reported emotional eaters do not increase food intake during emotional encounters in the laboratory. Implications of these findings are discussed, including the idea that it may be complex to adequately assess one's own emotional eating behavior.