Emotional eating Flashcards
What factors are measured in the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ)?
restrained, emotional and external eating
What does the Emotional Appetite Questionnaire (EMAQ) measure?
emotions related to specific situations
Why are implicit measures of emotional eating important?
because people struggle to self assess their emotional eating behavior
How are implicit measures of emotional eating assessed? give a clinical example
they’re measured using implicit association tests, for example they were used in an experiment where people uderwent EEG during food presentation with individual emotional scripts
How do highly emotional eaters react in clinical settings related to emotions? What brain regions are mostly involved in this process?
emotional eaters increased craving in negative emotion conditions, due to activity of regions implicated in control which possibly reflects the learned significance of food as a means to regulate negative states
