The moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviour
Introduction Emotional eating is an impulsive mood-regulation strategy that often follows psychological distress. Mindfulness is associated with less impulsive behaviour. Mindful eating involves a considered awareness of hunger and satiety, and conscious, non-automatic, food choices. This study exam...
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Emotional eating is an impulsive mood-regulation strategy that often follows psychological distress. Mindfulness is associated with less impulsive behaviour. Mindful eating involves a considered awareness of hunger and satiety, and conscious, non-automatic, food choices. This study examines the moderating
Material and methods
Participants (N = 392) completed self-report measures on distress, mindfulness and emotional eating, after which moderation analysis was carried out.
Results
Mindfulness was negatively associated with emotional eating, but only when distress was low. The most important facets of mindfulness for this were being able to describe one’s emotional state and a non-judgemental response to that state.
Conclusions
These results support previous findings that mindfulness reduces the impact distress has on emotional eating. Future research could explore interventions that enable individuals to describe their emotional state in the moment to reduce preoccupation with food during times of distress. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-83f4ba542c2a4feba5ba538adf7830562022-12-22T04:19:45ZengTermedia Publishing HouseHealth Psychology Report2353-41842353-55712021-10-0110210311010.5114/hpr.2021.109921142061The moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviourDiarmuid Verrier0Catherine Day1Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United KingdomDepartment of Psychology, Sociology and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United KingdomIntroduction Emotional eating is an impulsive mood-regulation strategy that often follows psychological distress. Mindfulness is associated with less impulsive behaviour. Mindful eating involves a considered awareness of hunger and satiety, and conscious, non-automatic, food choices. This study examines the moderating Material and methods Participants (N = 392) completed self-report measures on distress, mindfulness and emotional eating, after which moderation analysis was carried out. Results Mindfulness was negatively associated with emotional eating, but only when distress was low. The most important facets of mindfulness for this were being able to describe one’s emotional state and a non-judgemental response to that state. Conclusions These results support previous findings that mindfulness reduces the impact distress has on emotional eating. Future research could explore interventions that enable individuals to describe their emotional state in the moment to reduce preoccupation with food during times of distress.https://hpr.termedia.pl/The-moderating-effects-of-mindfulness-facets-on-psychological-distress-and-emotional,142061,0,2.htmldepressionanxietystressemotional eatingmindfulness |
| spellingShingle | Diarmuid Verrier Catherine Day The moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviour Health Psychology Report depression anxiety stress emotional eating mindfulness |
| title | The moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviour |
| title_full | The moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviour |
| title_fullStr | The moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviour |
| title_full_unstemmed | The moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviour |
| title_short | The moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviour |
| title_sort | moderating effects of mindfulness facets on psychological distress and emotional eating behaviour |
| topic | depression anxiety stress emotional eating mindfulness |
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