Examining Hedonic Hunger and Inhibitory Control as Novel Variables to Help Understand Emotional Eating

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika E. Gaspar
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Hedonic Hunger

Hunger, inhibitory control and distress-induced emotional eating

Appetite ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 124-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana van Strien ◽  
Machteld A. Ouwens ◽  
Carmen Engel ◽  
Carolina de Weerth
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Emotional Eating

scholarly journals Cognitive and Behavioral Factors Differentially Related to Intuitive Eating

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. 1237-1237
Author(s):  
Cindy Tsotsoros ◽  
Natalie Keirns ◽  
Nicholas Koemel ◽  
Bryant Keirns ◽  
Misty Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Path Model ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Intuitive Eating ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Assessment Visit

Abstract Objectives Inhibitory control measured by the Go/No-Go Task measures automatic inhibition. Difficulty with inhibition can extend into eating behavior, leading to unhealthy patterns such as emotional eating. Individuals who eat emotionally may also be less likely to engage in adaptive patterns of eating, such as intuitive eating (IE). IE is based on internal regulation of eating behaviors rather than eating for non-physiological reasons (e.g., emotions). This study sought to investigate the relationship between inhibitory control, emotional eating, and IE. Methods 108 adults with overweight/obesity enrolled in a weight loss trial participated in the study. The sample was 46 ± 11 years old, 72% female, 76% White, and had a mean BMI of 35.7 ± 5.9 kg/m2. All data were collected at the baseline assessment visit. Emotional eating and IE were measured via self-report with the Emotional Eating Scale (EES) and Intuitive Eating Scale-2 (IES-2), respectively. The EES provides a total score and the IES-2 provides a total score and four subscale scores: Unconditional Permission to Eat (PERM), Eating for Physical Rather than Emotional Reasons (PHYS), Reliance on Hunger and Satiety Cues (REL), and Body-Food Choice Congruence (CON). Inhibitory control was measured via behavioral tests with the Automated Neuropsychological Assessments Metrics-4 (ANAM-4) Go/No-Go subtest. Results A theoretically-driven path analysis model was calculated using AMOS, using the Go/No-Go subtest and EES as determinates of the four IE subscales. Overall, the path model was effective at capturing variability in two (PHYS & REL) of the four outcome variables. Substantial differences were observed in terms of the magnitude of the path coefficients (PERM ß = .04; PHYS ß = –.74) and the amount of variance captured across the IES-2 subscales criterion measure (R2 ranged from .00—.54). The overall fit indices for the model were above threshold: χ2(7) = 2.19, P = .95, χ2/DF = 0.31, CFI = 1.00, TLI = 1.20, and RMSEA = .000 (.000; .011). Conclusions These findings help shed light on how inhibitory control, emotional eating, and IE are associated with one another. Surprisingly, inhibitory control was unrelated to IE. Further, emotional eating may only contribute to certain facets of IE — eating for physical rather than emotional reasons and reliance on hunger and satiety cues. Funding Sources K23DK103941.

scholarly journals Emotional eating

Psico ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. e35452
Author(s):  
Roberto Decker ◽  
Marcelle Matiazo Pinhatti ◽  
Thiago Gomes DeCastro ◽  
Lisiane Bizarro
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Eating Style ◽  
Uncontrolled Eating

Emotional Eating (EE) is defined as eating under the influence of negative emotions, and is associated with Eating Disorders, impulsivity, depression and weight gain. However, previous literature is not clear regarding how these variables explain EE. The present study aimed to identify predictors of EE and its relationship to impulsivity, depression, eating style, and weight status in young adults. Sex differences in eating style were examined, and differences in EE between obese/overweight and normal/underweight individuals were tested. Two-hundred college students completed online questionnaires assessing all variables. Low inhibitory control, depression symptoms, female sex, and higher body mass index significantly predicted scores on EE. Obese/overweight and female participants presented increased EE. Correlation analysis evidenced positive associations between EE, Uncontrolled Eating, body mass, and low inhibitory control. Results indicate that EE is related to psychological factors such as impulsivity and depression, and to biological factors, such as sex and body mass.

scholarly journals Relationship between body image, anxiety, food-specific inhibitory control, and emotional eating in young women with abdominal obesity: a comparative cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong-Hua He ◽  
Ming-De Li ◽  
Chan-Jun Liu ◽  
Xiao-Yue Ma
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Abdominal Obesity ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Emotional Eating ◽  
The Body ◽  
Young Females ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Abdominal fat deposition is a key component of obesity, which is associated with an increased risk for a number of mental disorders. The current study aims to explore the relationship between body image, anxiety, food-specific inhibitory control, and emotional eating in young women with abdominal obesity. Method A total of 224 participants were recruited: 168 were non-abdominal obesity and 56 were abdominal obesity. Participants completed the following questionnaires and behavioral tests: the Body Mass Index (BMI) -based Silhouette-Matching Test (SMT), the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Food Stop Signal Task (SST), the Emotional Eating Scale (EES). Results Abdominal obesity women had significantly higher levels of trait anxiety, cognitive difference, expectational difference in body image but lower self-reported emotional eating level compared to the control group. Anxiety mediated the relationship between cognitive difference of body image and depression eating in young females with abdominal obesity. In addition, only among abdominal obesity individuals, expectational difference of body image were significantly and positively correlated with food-specific inhibitory control and trait/state anxiety. Conclusion The findings suggest it is of critical importance to promote a healthy body image recognition and expectation and improve mood regulation for young females with abdominal obesity high in trait anxiety.

Rebound acid hypersecretion after ranitidine is not due to impaired inhibitory control

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A158-A158 ◽  
Author(s):  
D GILLEN ◽  
A WIRZ ◽  
K MCCOLL
Keyword(s):  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Acid Hypersecretion

Do Young Children Modulate Their Cognitive Control?

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solène Ambrosi ◽  
Patrick Lemaire ◽  
Agnès Blaye
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Stroop Tasks ◽  
And Task

Abstract. Dynamic, trial-by-trial modulations of inhibitory control are well documented in adults but rarely investigated in children. Here, we examined whether 5-to-7 year-old children, an age range when inhibitory control is still partially immature, achieve such modulations. Fifty three children took flanker, Simon, and Stroop tasks. Above and beyond classic congruency effects, the present results showed two crucial findings. First, we found evidence for sequential modulations of congruency effects in these young children in the three conflict tasks. Second, our results showed both task specificities and task commonalities. These findings in young children have important implications as they suggest that, to be modulated, inhibitory control does not require full maturation and that the precise pattern of trial-by-trial modulations may depend on the nature of conflict.

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