Eating Behavior, Emotions, and Overweight
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 48 (2) , 669-670
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1981.48.2.669
Abstract
Your Emotional Investment in Eating: A Test was administered to 26 subjects 20 or more pounds overweight, and to 36 subjects within 20 pounds of “desirable” weight. The test as a whole differentiated the groups as did 11 of 30 individual items. The overweight persons showed greater emotional reactivity, were more self-dissatisfied, more private or solitary in their eating habits, and more immoderate in eating than controls if bored or depressed.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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