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Emotional eating: Really hungry or just angry?
This 2020 study aimed to determine the impact of parenting styles and academic self-efficacy on adolescents’ emotional eating behaviors, by employing the Emotional Eating Scale for Child and Adolescent, the Parenting Style Scale and Academic Self-efficacy Scale. Among the 584 adolescents aged between 12-17 who enrolled, girls’ emotional eating total score was higher than the boys, and there was no connection between emotional eating and body mass index. Parenting styles and academic self-efficacy predicted 34% of the variants observed in the adolescents’ emotional eating behaviors. Increased emotional eating was associated with a more negligent parenting style, whereas the subjects were less likely to eat with their emotions if they were parented in a democratic and permissive way. While there was a drop in emotional eating behaviors, academic self-efficacy perception rose accordingly. These findings back up the notion that parenting styles and academic self-efficacy affect the emotional eating behaviors of adolescents. Thus, identifying the many factors that are involved in adolescent emotional eating would allow the development of effective coping mechanisms. [NPID: parents, children, family, family relationships, parenting, self-efficacy, emotional eating, academic self-efficacy, negligent parenting, democratic parenting, permissive parenting, coping, coping mechanisms]
Year: 2020
