The Influence of Worries on Emotional Eating,Weight Concerns,and Body Mass Index in Latina Female Youth |
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| Authors: | Britni R Belcher Selena T Nguyen-Rodriguez Arianna D McClain Ya-Wen Hsu Jennifer B Unger Donna Spruijt-Metz |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Gender Studies and Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;2. Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands;3. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 250 College Street, Toronto, Canada;4. Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;5. Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;1. Department of Psychology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;2. Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong;3. Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;4. Department of Health and Physical Education, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong;5. Department of Psychological Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore;6. Public Health, Division of the Sciences, Asian University for Women, Bangladesh |
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| Abstract: | PurposeTo investigate the effect of worries on weight concerns, emotional eating, and body mass index (BMI) percentile in an ethnically diverse sample of female youth.MethodsThis study used baseline and follow-up data from a brief school-based physical activity intervention trial involving minority female youth. Partial correlations adjusted for intervention status, age, and ethnicity were used to assess the relationships between emotional eating, weight concerns, and BMI percentile at follow-up. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze the relationships between baseline worries and follow-up emotional eating, weight concerns, and BMI percentile. Additional analysis assessed whether emotional eating mediated and/or moderated the relationship between baseline worries and follow-up BMI. Data were analyzed using SAS version 9.1.ResultsThe sample consisted of 404 minority females (67.1% Latina; mean age = 12.5 ± .6; 60.6% were of normal weight). Weight concerns were positively correlated with emotional eating and BMI percentile (p < .001 for both). At follow-up, baseline worries significantly predicted emotional eating (p = .027) and weight concerns (p < .001) but not BMI percentile (p = .183). Emotional eating did not mediate the relationship between baseline worries and follow-up BMI percentile; however, it did moderate the relationship between baseline worries and follow-up BMI percentile (p = .003).ConclusionsIn this sample, worries were associated with psychosocial variables but not with BMI percentile. Reducing worries in those with high emotional eating scores may influence future weight gain among Latina females. |
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