Ana M Gutierrez-Colina, Stephen Aichele, Jason M Lavender, Natalia Sanchez, Isabel Thorstad, Lauren D Gulley, Jill E Emerick, Ruby Schrag, Victoria Thomas, Holly Spinner, Thomas Arnold, Andrew Heroy, Mark C Haigney, Marian Tanofsky-Kraff, Lauren B Shomaker
OBJECTIVE: Among adolescents, disinhibited eating and anxiety commonly co-occur. Precision intervention approaches targeting unique mechanistic vulnerabilities that contribute to disinhibited eating and anxiety may therefore be helpful. However, the effectiveness of such interventions hinges on knowledge of between- and within-person associations related to disinhibited eating, anxiety, and related processes. METHOD: A sample of 39 adolescent females (12-17 years) with elevated anxiety and above-average weight (BMI %ile ≥ 75th) completed measures of theoretically driven social and cognitive-behavioral variables, disinhibited eating, and anxiety via ecological momentary assessment over 7 days...
February 28, 2024: International Journal of Eating Disorders