Determining the relationship between anxiety levels, stress coping styles, and emotional eating of women in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Özlem Güner, Adeviye Aydın
PMID 36428056WHAT IT FOUND
Women in Turkey with higher emotional eating scores also reported higher coronavirus anxiety, more helpless and submissive coping, and less self-confident or optimistic coping.
BMI, weight change, age, and coping styles were linked with emotional eating.
Key findings
01The average emotional eating score was 11.31 on a 0 to 30 scale, and scores of 11 to 20 were treated as emotional eating.
02Higher emotional eating was associated with higher coronavirus anxiety, more helpless and submissive coping, and less self-confident or optimistic coping.
03In the final model, BMI, weight change, age, self-confident approach, and helpless approach explained 30.8% of emotional eating.
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What it does not show
The findings depend on women's own reports, and the paper assumes those reports were correct. The survey was online and shared through social networks, so women without online access were not included. It included only women aged 18 to 65, so it does not describe other age groups or men. Because it was cross-sectional, it shows relationships at one time and cannot show that anxiety or coping caused emotional eating.
Declared interests
This research did not receive specific grant funding, and the authors declared no actual or potential conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that anxiety, coping style, or counselling caused or reduced emotional eating. The study measured reported scores at one time and did not test an intervention.