Eating behaviours of normal and overweight female undergraduate students in positive and negative emotions

Sidek, Suriati and Mat Hassan, N. A. A and Hamirudin, Aliza Haslinda and Mohd Abu Bakar, Wan Azdie and Irfan Unal, Tubanur (2021) Eating behaviours of normal and overweight female undergraduate students in positive and negative emotions. Food Research, 5 (2). pp. 113-119. E-ISSN 2550-2166

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Abstract

Emotional well-being affects eating behaviour, whether making an individual eat less or more than they normally do. This paper aimed to compare eating behaviour between normal and overweight female undergraduate students in response to positive and negative emotions. This cross-sectional study was conducted among 166 female university students. Data collection involved the assessments of participants’ anthropometric measurements to obtain body mass index (BMI) and two self-administered questionnaires to measure of eating behaviour in positive and negative emotions; Emotional Appetite Questionnaire (EMAQ) and Eating Junk Food Questionnaire (EJFQ). Data from the two groups were compared to obtain differences in eating behaviour between normal and overweight female undergraduate students in response to positive and negative emotions. Both normal (Mean = 5.96±1.05) and overweight (Mean = 5.60±0.81) participants reported no changes in the levels of eating under positive emotions. The results also showed that both BMI categories “ate less” when they experienced negative emotions. For EJFQ, there was no significant difference in eating junk food between normal and overweight participants in response to positive emotions. However, the results revealed that the overweight group has more tendency to choose pizza (X2(1) = 6.879), p = 0.009) and cake (X2(1) = 7.458, p = 0.006) than the normal group under negative emotions. These results offer an insight that both BMI groups have almost similar eating-related concerns and thus intervention programs can be constructed on distressing eating-related thoughts and emotions among female undergraduate students.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	4609/89121
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Emotional eating, Eating-related concerns, Negative emotion, Obesity, Positive emotion
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology > BF511 Affection. Feeling. Emotion T Technology > TX Home economics > TX341 Nutrition. Foods and food supply
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences Kulliyyah of Allied Health Sciences > Department of Nutrition Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences > Department of Psychology
Depositing User:	Dr. Wan Azdie Mohd Abu Bakar
Date Deposited:	02 Apr 2021 11:32
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2021 15:47
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/89121

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