The Homeostatic Theory of Obesity: An Empirical Verification of the Circle of Discontent with an Assessment of Its Relationship to Restrained and Uncontrolled Eating among Children and Adolescents

Czepczor-Bernat, Kamila; Brytek-Matera, Anna; Matusik, Paweł

doi:10.3390/ijerph17176028

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“…As shown by the research carried out so far, eating patterns and body image can play a very important role in developing obesity (e.g., (10,23,24), and one of the theoretical models explaining this is the Homeostatic Theory of Obesity (25). This model has also been empirically verified in studies conducted in a group of Polish children and adolescents (26). However, it is worth continuing research in this area to check how important social media in childhood are in shaping body image and eating patterns, especially given that (in general) children's and adolescents' use of social media has a significant impact on their body mass index (19).…”

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Children’s food preferences are closely related to their parents’ food preferences and knowledge of food is linked to what their parents share with them. Parents, however, are not the only people who model such behavior. Paradoxically, the ubiquitous technological development can also pose a huge threat. In developed countries, 94% of teenagers use social media platforms such as: Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, or TikTok, and this also applies to children. It can therefore be argued that parents’ nutritional preferences and behavior are related to the same behaviors of children and there is an extensive literature on this subject. It is therefore important to check how other factors – new technology (and social media in particular) – can influence changes in this area. A literature search was conducted in the following databases: Google Scholar, PubMed, EBSCO in December 2021. After applying all the filters and verification of relevance in terms of the research on the topic of interest to us, 4 articles related to research on body image and social media and 4 articles related to research on food choices and social media among children and adolescents were obtained. The conducted analysis showed that various studies so far indicate that social media can have a very strong influence on the development of eating patterns and body image in children and adolescents, which in turn may be one of the risk factors for developing obesity when promoted behaviors are not associated with a healthy lifestyle. It is also worth pointing out that social media can be used as a resource in the prevention and treatment of obesity. A closer look at this topic seems to be particularly important due to the fact that, among adults, social media is not only a very important source of information about lifestyle, but also a source of social support when people attempting to lose weight. Therefore, by increasing preventive activity in social media and using modern solutions related to social media (including the use of hashtag signs), we can have a greater impact on the health awareness of children and adolescents around the world.

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“…All subscales were used in this study. Reliability and validity were acceptable [44,45] and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was: (a) food responsiveness: 0.86, (b) emotional under-eating: 0.68, (c) enjoyment of food: 0.84, (d) satiety responsiveness: 0.65, (e) desire to drink: 0.80, (f) slowness in eating: 0.79, (g) emotional over-eating: 0.82, (h) food fussiness: 0.82.…”

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“…Parents completed also the 35-item child eating behaviour questionnaire, which measures parents' assessment of children's eating-related behaviours [44,45]. It consists of eight subscales (food responsiveness, emotional over-eating, enjoyment of food, desire to drink, satiety responsiveness, slowness in eating, emotional under-eating, food fussiness, e.g., my child is difficult to please with meals, my child eats more when annoyed, if allowed to, my child would eat too much).…”

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Avoidant/Restrictive Food Disorder (ARFID), Food Neophobia, Other Eating-Related Behaviours and Feeding Practices among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and in Non-Clinical Sample: A Preliminary Study

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Previous research shows that children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may experience several difficulties—including those related to eating—and this area of research needs to be explored further. This study had two main objectives: (1) comparison of the clinical (autism spectrum disorder) and non-clinical sample of children in terms of avoidant/restrictive food disorder, food neophobia, other eating-related behaviours and feeding practices; (2) assessment of selected predictors of food neophobia. The final sample included 54 children and parents from the clinical sample (ASD) and 51 from the non-clinical sample. Parents completed: the autism spectrum rating scales (ASRS), the eating disorders in youth questionnaire (EDY-Q), the children food neophobia scale (CFNS), the child eating behaviour questionnaire (CEBQ), the child feeding questionnaire (CFQ), and a socio-demographic survey. Our analysis allowed us to partially confirm the first hypothesis since the clinical sample (vs. the non-clinical group) had significantly higher scores in such variables as (a) avoidant/restrictive food disorder (ARFID), (b) food neophobia, (c) other eating-related behaviours: emotional under-eating, desire to drink, food fussiness, (d) feeding practices: pressure to eat. Moreover, our analysis of predictors of food neophobia in the clinical and non-clinical samples also allowed us to partially confirm the second hypothesis because it turned out that only in the clinical sample (vs. the non-clinical sample) were the predictors significantly associated with food neophobia, but only two of them (food fussiness and selective eating). In conclusion, our study showed that children with ASD (compared to children without this diagnosis) experience increased difficulties in eating behaviours, and their parents present a stronger intensity of the feeding practice based on pressure to eat. This study showed that feeding problems for children in the ASD sample are a significant problem, and it is still worth exploring this area in research.

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“…One early application of the GTB was an effort to explain the causes of obesity (Annunziato and Grossman, 2016;DiClemente and Delahanty, 2016;Marks, 2015Marks, , 2016. Czepczor-Bernat et al (2020) provide an empirical verification of the theory with their study of restrained and uncontrolled eating among children and adolescents. Guided by the GTB, a study by Liu et al (2022) observed an inverted U-shaped relationship between BMI and happiness in China.…”

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Psychological homeostasis and protective behaviours in the COVID-19 pandemic

Marks¹

2022

J Health Psychol

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Since the first case of human SARS-CoV-2 infection late in 2019 workers across multiple disciplines have been strenuously engaged in attempting to prevent the spread of the virus and to provide care to patients. Never in history has so much human effort been concentrated on a single health trauma. Much of the new research is empirical in nature with relatively few strands of theory. This article focuses on two recent theories relevant to COVID-19 protective behaviours, the COM-B and the General Theory of Behaviour. New empirical findings on the means, motives and opportunities for COVID-19 protective behaviours improve our knowledge and capacity to cope with pandemics using psychological homeostasis.

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The Homeostatic Theory of Obesity: An Empirical Verification of the Circle of Discontent with an Assessment of Its Relationship to Restrained and Uncontrolled Eating among Children and Adolescents

Cited by 6 publications

References 37 publications

#childhoodobesity – A brief literature review of the role of social media in body image shaping and eating patterns among children and adolescents

#childhoodobesity – A brief literature review of the role of social media in body image shaping and eating patterns among children and adolescents

Avoidant/Restrictive Food Disorder (ARFID), Food Neophobia, Other Eating-Related Behaviours and Feeding Practices among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and in Non-Clinical Sample: A Preliminary Study

Psychological homeostasis and protective behaviours in the COVID-19 pandemic

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