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Emotional Eating and Heart Rate Variability: Testing the Affect Regulation Model

Moore, Louis H., III
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1526308230070517

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2018, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Psychology/Clinical.
Emotional eating, or overeating in response to a mood state, is related to various negative physical and mental health outcomes, including obesity and Binge Eating Disorder (BED). According to the affect regulation model of emotional eating, emotional eating behavior is conceptualized as a maladaptive strategy to regulate affect. However, inconsistent concurrent and discriminative validity of emotional eating self-report measures found in experimental and naturalistic studies call the affect regulation model into question. Psychophysiological measures shown to behaviorally indicate emotion dysregulation, such as trait level Heart Rate Variability (HRV), might confirm a decreased ability to regulate affect is related to emotional eating behavior. A secondary analysis of data from an experimental study of emotional eating examined relationships between different measures of emotion dysregulation and emotional eating. To validate the affect regulation model of emotional eating, lower trait levels of HRV were expected to be associated with higher scores on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), higher food intake following a negative mood induction, and higher scores on the Emotional Eating Scale (EES). Hierarchical linear regression models did not find these relationships to be significant, though both trait level HRV and self-reported emotion dysregulation were associated with changes in the Positive and Negative Affect scale (PANAS). Results of the current study showed trait level HRV and the DERS subscales to be good indicators of an emotional response to the mood induction. Although it remains unclear whether affect regulation is truly central to emotional eating behavior, obstacles to resolving this question are revealed and discussed.
Dara Musher-Eizenman, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
William O'Brien, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Abby Braden, Ph.D (Committee Member)
49 p.
Psychology
emotional eating; heart rate variability; affect regulation; emotion dysregulation

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  • Moore, III, L. H. (2018). Emotional Eating and Heart Rate Variability: Testing the Affect Regulation Model [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1526308230070517

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Moore, III, Louis. Emotional Eating and Heart Rate Variability: Testing the Affect Regulation Model . 2018. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1526308230070517.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Moore, III, Louis. "Emotional Eating and Heart Rate Variability: Testing the Affect Regulation Model ." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1526308230070517

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