Factors affecting food addiction: emotional eating, palatable eating motivations, and BMI

Evaluating the factors leading to adult food addiction should shed light on potential preventive and treatment strategies for obesity and eating disorders. This research aimed to assess the relationship between food addiction, emotional eating, palatable eating motivations, and the factors that affe...

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Published in:Food science & nutrition 2024-09, Vol.12 (9), p.6841-6848
Main Authors: Bozkurt, Osman, Çamli, Ayşe, Kocaadam‐Bozkurt, Betül
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Addictions
Addictive behaviors
Adults
Beverages
BMI
Body mass index
Body size
Conformity
Coping
Cronbach's alpha
Eating behavior
Eating disorders
Emotional behavior
emotional eating
Emotions
Food
food addiction
Likert scale
Men
Metabolism
Obesity
Original
palatable eating motivations
palatable foods
Questionnaires
Risk factors
Validity
Weight control
Women
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Summary:Evaluating the factors leading to adult food addiction should shed light on potential preventive and treatment strategies for obesity and eating disorders. This research aimed to assess the relationship between food addiction, emotional eating, palatable eating motivations, and the factors that affected them. Five hundred twenty‐two adults participated in this descriptive, cross‐sectional study in Erzurum, Turkey. Participants completed a questionnaire that included a general information form, anthropometric measurements, Palatable Eating Motives Scale (PEMS), Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), and Emotional Eater Questionnaire (EEQ). In total, 181 (34.7%) men and 341 (65.3%) women participated in the study. While 24.7% were overweight or obese, 65.7% had normal BMI (body mass index). Food addiction (FA) was determined in 18.2% of the participants. The FA group had significantly higher PEMS and EEQ scores (p 
ISSN:2048-7177
2048-7177
DOI:10.1002/fsn3.4333