Holly Spinner, Katherine A Thompson, Viviana Bauman, Jason M Lavender, Isabel Thorstad, Ruby Schrag, Tracy Sbrocco, Natasha A Schvey, Brian Ford, Caitlin Ford, Denise E Wilfley, Sarah Jorgensen, David A Klein, Jeffrey Quinlan, Jack A Yanovski, Mark Haigney, Marian Tanofsky-Kraff
OBJECTIVE: Adolescent children of US service members (i.e., military-dependent youth) face unique stressors that increase risk for various forms of disinhibited eating, including emotional eating. Difficulties with adaptively responding to stress and aversive emotions may play an important role in emotional eating. This study examined emotion dysregulation as a potential moderator of the association between perceived stress and emotional eating in adolescent military dependents. METHOD: Participants were military-dependent youth (N = 163, 57...
April 11, 2024: International Journal of Eating Disorders