Emotional overeating is common and negatively associated with alcohol use in normal-weight female university students

This study targets possible preventative measures of obesity for normal-weight young women. A group of young healthy university students were asked to complete questionnaires regarding their emotional eating habits, substance use, alcohol consumption, physical exercise, suspected eating disorders and cognitive/behavioural components of eating. The results from the multivariate analysis indicated Distress-induced Overeating is negatively correlated to moderate and excessive drinking and suggests that they are 2 distinct coping mechanisms in response to negative mood. Other findings from the 28-day study include normal-weight female students were more likely to emotionally overeat intermittently when experiencing anxiety. [NPID: emotions, emotion regulation, emotional eating, young women, preventative measures, obesity, substance use, alcohol consumption, physical exercise, eating disorders, cognition, behavior, alcohol, anxiety]

Year: 2018

Reference: Constant, A., Gautier, Y., Coquery, N., Thibault, R., Moirand, R., & Val-Laillet, D. (2018). Emotional overeating is common and negatively associated with alcohol use in normal-weight female university students. Appetite, 129, 186–191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.07.012

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