The moderating effects of mindful eating on the relationship between emotional functioning and eating styles in overweight and obese women

Kamila Czepczor-Bernat, Anna Brytek-Matera, Carla Gramaglia, Patrizia Zeppegno, Kamila Czepczor-Bernat, Anna Brytek-Matera, Carla Gramaglia, Patrizia Zeppegno

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of the current study was to examine the moderating effect of mindful eating on the relationship between emotional functioning and eating styles in overweight and obese women.

Methods: One hundred and eighty four overweight and obese adult women (BMI 30.12 ± 3.77 kg/m2) were assessed with the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire and the Mindful Eating Scale.

Results: Mindful eating significantly moderated several of the relationships between emotional functioning and eating styles. At all levels of mindful eating, emotion dysregulation and negative affect are both associated with greater emotional eating, but with stronger associations for high levels of mindful eating. For people low in mindful eating, both emotion dysregulation and negative affect are associated with lower restrictive eating, and neither of them are associated with uncontrolled eating. For people high in mindful eating, neither emotion dysregulation nor negative affect are associated with restrictive eating, and only negative affect is associated with greater uncontrolled eating.

Conclusion: When mindful eating techniques are included as part of an intervention for overweight or obese individuals, it is even more important that those interventions should also include techniques to reduce emotion dysregulation and negative affect.

Level of evidence: Level V, descriptive study.

Keywords: Eating styles; Emotional dysregulation; Mindful eating; Negative emotions; Obesity; Overweight.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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