Ewers, Steffen (2023) The Effect of Emotion Regulation on Eating Behavior: An Experimental Intervention. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
While overweight and obesity rates are increasing steadily, effective treatments for weight loss are still lacking. A reason for this may be that most current interventions define these health conditions rather broadly: That is, they mainly attempt to modify individual’s eating behavior by recommending them to decrease their energy intake (especially through dieting) in favor of increasing their energy expenditure. Thus, it may be promising to focus more on specific mechanisms that may play a role in eating behavior. Individuals’ emotion regulation may be one such mechanisms and the present study aimed for exploring its role in an experimental intervention. A total of 88 participants participated in the study. The first hypothesis tested was whether the condition (suppression vs. reappraisal vs. control) had an effect on eating initiation. The second hypothesis tested was whether the condition had an effect on food intake. Before the laboratory experiment, more negative and less positive emotions were induced by evoking hunger through a 14 hr fast. Both hypotheses were rejected. However, the induction of hunger through fasting was successful and as expected, led to more negative and less positive emotions as compared to a previous measurement in a satiated state. To conclude, the study made one of the first attempts to investigate the role of emotion regulation in eating behavior. Future experiments with larger sample sizes might have sufficient statistical power to detect small to medium effects this study may have been unable to reveal. Keywords: women, hunger, emotion, emotion regulation, eating behavior
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Jonker, N.C. and Ackermans, M.A.M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Clinical Psychology (CP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 09 May 2023 10:15 |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2023 10:15 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1948 |
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