'I ate too much so I must have been sad': Emotions as a confabulated reason for overeating
'I ate too much so I must have been sad': Emotions as a confabulated reason for overeating
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DOI：
10.1016/j.appet.2016.04.028
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
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影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Evers, Catharine
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作者：
Adriaanse, Marieke A.;Prinsen, Sosja;Evers, Catharine
背景：情绪性饮食（即，为了应对负面影响而暴饮暴食）是对不符合个人饮食规范的饮食行为的普遍接受的解释。然而，自我报告的情绪化进食和暴饮暴食之间的因果关系的经验证据是混合的。目前的研究测试了另一种假设，即情绪性进食得分高表明人们容易用负面情绪作为一个虚构的、事后的原因来解释暴饮暴食。方法：女学生（N = 46）参加了一个“味觉测试”，并在一天后回到实验室，收到反馈，他们要么吃得太多（违反规范的情况），要么吃得一定量（控制情况），然后评估情绪化进食。在整个研究过程中，负面影响被测量了好几次。结果：在违反规范的情况下，情绪进食得分高的参与者在进食前对自己的影响的回顾性评价比情绪进食得分低的参与者更消极。在控制条件下，情绪评分对情绪评分没有影响。讨论：对于一些人来说，情绪化进食得分可能代表了一种倾向，即回顾性地将暴饮暴食归因于负面影响。这可以解释为什么在自我报告的情绪化进食和暴饮暴食之间缺乏一致的发现。(C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd.版权所有。
Background: Emotional eating (i.e., overeating in response to negative affect) is a commonly accepted explanation for eating behaviors that are not in line with personal eating-norms. However, the empirical evidence for a causal link between self-reported emotional eating and overeating is mixed. The present study tested an alternative hypothesis stating that high emotional eating scores are indicative of a susceptibility to use negative affect as a confabulated, post-hoc reason to explain overeating.Methods: Female students (N = 46) participated in a 'taste-test' and came back to the lab a day later to receive feedback that they either ate too much (norm-violation condition) or an acceptable amount of food (control condition), whereafter emotional eating was assessed. Negative affect was measured several times throughout the study.Results: In the norm-violation condition, participants with high emotional eating scores retrospectively rated their affect prior to eating as more negative than participants with low emotional eating scores. In the control condition, no effect of emotional score on affect ratings was found.Discussion: For some individuals emotional eating scores may represent a tendency to retrospectively attribute overeating to negative affect. This could explain the lack of consistent findings for a link between self-reported emotional eating and overeating. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.