Attachment style and emotional eating in bariatric surgery candidates: The mediating role of difficulties in emotion regulation

Difficulties with emotion regulation is a hypothesized mechanism through which attachment insecurity may affect emotional eating. No studies have yet investigated this effect in the bariatric population. Because many obese individuals engage in emotional eating, difficulty regulating emotion may be...

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Published in:Eating behaviors : an international journal 2015-08, Vol.18, p.36-40
Main Authors: Taube-Schiff, Marlene, Van Exan, Jessica, Tanaka, Rika, Wnuk, Susan, Hawa, Raed, Sockalingam, Sanjeev
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Bariatric Surgery
Cross-Sectional Studies
Eating - psychology
Emotion regulation
Emotional eating
Emotions
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Obesity - psychology
Obesity - surgery
Object Attachment
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Summary:Difficulties with emotion regulation is a hypothesized mechanism through which attachment insecurity may affect emotional eating. No studies have yet investigated this effect in the bariatric population. Because many obese individuals engage in emotional eating, difficulty regulating emotion may be an important underlying mechanism through which attachment insecurity is linked to emotional eating in bariatric surgery candidates. In this cross-sectional study, 1393 adult bariatric surgery candidates from the Toronto Western Hospital were recruited to complete the Emotional Eating Scale (EES), Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ9), Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD7), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), and the Experiences for Close Relationships 16-item Scale (ECR-16) in order to explore the mediating role of emotion regulation on the relationship between attachment insecurity and emotional eating. Path analysis within a structural equation modeling framework examined direct and indirect effects of attachment insecurity on emotional eating. The indices of this overall model indicated that the specified set of direct and indirect pathways and corresponding correlations were a good fit with the data (RMSEA
ISSN:1471-0153
1873-7358
DOI:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.03.011