The onset and course of binge eating in 8- to 13-year-old healthy weight, overweight and obese children

Allen, Karina L.; Byrne, Susan; Puma, Michelle La; McLean, Neil J.; Davis, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1016/j.eatbeh.2008.07.008

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“…During the 1-year follow-up period, 13 children developed binge-eating behavior (subjective or objective binge eating), obese children thereby being more likely to report binge-eating episodes when compared with normal and overweight children. 81 The findings of the latter study support cognitivebehavioral accounts of binge eating, and suggest that binge eating might be driven from a deficit in affect-regulation emotional eating as a response to an adverse arousal state 82 in combination with engaging in strict dietary restraint. According to Westenhöfer et al, 83 dietary restraint is not a homogenous construct, but includes rigid and flexible control.…”

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“…A recent study investigated the natural course of binge eating during one year in 259 (8-13 years old) children from the general population, as well as from a clinical setting using the Eating Disorder Examination for Children, Ch-EDE, 80 thereby assessing predictors for manifestation and development of binge-eating episodes. 81 Overall 4.2 and 5% of all children suffered from binge-eating episodes with subjectively or objectively large amount of food intake. After 1 year, most of these children ceased to binge eat.…”

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Psychological correlates of childhood obesity

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To enhance the prevention and intervention efforts of childhood obesity, there is a strong need for the early detection of psychological factors contributing to its development and maintenance. Rather than a stable condition, childhood obesity represents a dynamic process, in which behavior, cognition and emotional regulation interact mutually with each other. Family structure and context, that is, parental and familial attitudes, activity, nutritional patterns as well as familial stress, have an important role with respect to the onset and maintenance of overweight and obesity. Behavioral and emotional problems are found in many, though not all, obese children, with a higher prevalence in clinical, treatment-seeking samples. The interrelatedness between obesity and psychological problems seems to be twofold, in that clinically meaningful psychological distress might foster weight gain and obesity may lead to psychosocial problems. The most frequently implicated psychosocial factors are externalizing (impulsivity and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder) and internalizing (depression and anxiety) behavioral problems and uncontrolled eating behavior. These findings strengthen the need to further explore the interrelatedness between psychological problems and childhood obesity.

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“…Lower body satisfaction (conceptualized as the equivalent of higher body dissatisfaction in this study) is also linked to other health-related determinants and outcomes including lower self-esteem [14], anxiety and depression [15] or to subclinical eating pathologies [16] and various weight control behaviors [17]. On the other hand, higher body satisfaction is associated with individuals being less likely to diet restrictively or use other weight control behaviors, and with higher frequency of physical activity [18].…”

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Body satisfaction and body weight in under- and healthy-weight adolescents: mediating effects of restrictive dieting, healthy and unhealthy food intake

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Purpose Theoretical models, such as the transdiagnostic model of eating disorders highlight the role of cognitive factors (e.g., the way people perceive their bodies) and their associations with maladaptive weight management behaviors resulting in underweight. This paper aims at testing the indirect association of adolescent's body satisfaction and body mass index (BMI) through restrictive dieting, healthy eating or unhealthy eating as well as moderating role of adolescent's weight status. Methods The study was conducted in 16 public middle and high schools in Central and Eastern Poland. A sample of 1042 under-and healthy-weight white adolescents aged 13-20 (BMI: 12.63-24.89) completed two self-reported questionnaires (fruit, vegetable, and energy-dense food intake) with a 11-month interval. Weight and height were measured objectively. Multiple mediation analysis and moderated multiple mediation analysis were conducted to test the study hypotheses. Results Adolescents less satisfied with their bodies were more likely to diet restrictively and at the same time ate more unhealthy energy-dense food rather than healthy food, which in turn predicted lower BMI. No moderating effects of weight status were found. Conclusions Low body satisfaction is a risk for restrictive diet and unhealthy food intake. Prevention programs may target under-and healthy-weight adolescents who are highly dissatisfied with their bodies, have a high intake of energy-dense food and apply a restrictive diet at the same time. Level of evidence Level III: longitudinal cohort study.

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“…Emotional eating plays an important role in mental health problems, namely body image and eating-related difficulties [6,11]. Also, research emphasizes that these difficulties should be considered from a dimensional perspective, supporting therefore the relevance of assessing emotional eating both in clinical and nonclinical samples.…”

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“…Emotional eating is associated with mental health problems, and plays an important role in body image, weight and eating-related disorders [6][7][8][9]. In particular, studies suggest that negative mood states, combined with disturbing eating and body image-related thoughts, are precipitants of binge eating [10,11].…”

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Returning to emotional eating: the emotional eating scale psychometric properties and associations with body image flexibility and binge eating

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Pinto‐Gouveia

2015

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Purpose: This study tests the Emotional Eating Scale (EES) psychometric properties and correlates, and the moderator effect of body image flexibility on the association between emotional eating and binge eating.Methods: The EES factorial structure was examined in female college students and women from the general population, through a Principal Component Analysis and a Confirmatory Factor Analysis. EES' psychometric properties and moderation analyses were further conducted.Results: The EES presented a three-factor structure -Depression, Anxiety and Anger -, a good model fit, internal consistency, construct validity and temporal stability. EES was positively associated with general and eating psychopathology, binge eating, and negatively associated with mindfulness and body image flexibility. Body image flexibility moderated the association between emotional eating and binge eating.Conclusions: Findings showed that EES is a valid measure of emotional eating, and clarified the association between emotional eating and binge eating moderated by body image flexibility.

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The onset and course of binge eating in 8- to 13-year-old healthy weight, overweight and obese children

Cited by 84 publications

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Psychological correlates of childhood obesity

Psychological correlates of childhood obesity

Body satisfaction and body weight in under- and healthy-weight adolescents: mediating effects of restrictive dieting, healthy and unhealthy food intake

Returning to emotional eating: the emotional eating scale psychometric properties and associations with body image flexibility and binge eating

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