The Plymouth Student Scientist
An investigation into whether snack choices differ between emotional eaters and non-emotional eaters
Document Type
Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences Articles
Abstract
Eating patterns and behaviour have been linked to the increasing incidence of weight-related health risks. Understanding the motivations behind certain food choices, particularly high energy-dense foods is therefore of importance. The purpose of this research was to get a better understanding of the snack choices of emotional eaters and how these compared to non-emotional eaters. Participants, 100 male and female students, completed a questionnaire to determine emotional eating and snacking habits. Analyses of the data collected revealed that there was a weak, yet statistically significant correlation between the consumption of sweet snacks and emotional eating score, but no significant difference was found between fast food, savoury snacks or fruit. There was a significant difference in the emotional eating scores between genders (males mean score 15.2 ± 1.7, females mean score 24.6 ± 2.4) with females showing more prevalence towards being emotional eaters. The main conclusion drawn is sweet snacks were consumed more frequently by emotional eaters and females were more likely to have higher emotional eating scores.
Publication Date
2014-12-01
Publication Title
The Plymouth Student Scientist
Volume
7
Issue
2
First Page
3
Last Page
16
ISSN
1754-2383
Deposit Date
May 2019
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Adams, Jessica
(2014)
"An investigation into whether snack choices differ between emotional eaters and non-emotional eaters,"
The Plymouth Student Scientist: Vol. 7:
Iss.
2, Article 11.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24382/8pbr-ab22
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/tpss/vol7/iss2/11
