Abstract
European Health Psychology Society 35th Annual Conference (Aug. 23-27 2021, online)
Title: Opposing emotion-mediated effects of stress on body mass index for healthy- and over-weight Latvians
Ieva Salina; [email protected]; Department of Sports and Nutrition, Rigas Stradins University, Latvia
Māra Grundmane; [email protected]; Department of Sports and Nutrition, Rigas Stradins University, Latvia
E. Leigh Gibson; [email protected], Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London; UK
Background: In Latvia, 26% of adults are obese. We investigated associations of stress, emotional eating, work demands and diet with body mass index (BMI) in working Latvian adults, and examined whether associations of stress and emotional eating with BMI vary with weight status.
Methods: A cross-sectional online survey assessed psychosocial experiences of work (Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire III; COPSOQ), self-reported weight, height, weight changes, eating attitudes (DEBQ), appetite changes due to COVID-19, working situation, negative affect (DASS-21) and diet (EPIC FFQ) in Latvian adults. Participants were recruited by e-mailing companies, and through social media cooperating with Latvian influencers. Analyses included 874 currently working adults (808 women), mean age = 32.1 years, range 21 to 65. A stress scale was derived from relevant COPSOQ items. Mediation analyses tested whether associations between stress and BMI may be mediated by emotional eating, and separately for healthy-weight adults (HW: 18.5<BMI<25; n=575) vs. those with BMI>25 (OWOB; n=268).
Findings: For HW, higher stress predicted lower BMI (standardised coefficient β=-0.113, p=0.01) despite stress predicting higher emotional eating (DEBQ-E; β=0.347, p<0.0001), which in turn predicted higher BMI (indirect effect β=0.058, bootstrapped 95% CI, 0.028 to 0.091). By contrast, in OWOB, stress predicted higher BMI (β=0.133, p=0.029) and strongly predicted emotional eating (β=0.535, p<0.0001), which in turn fully mediated the effect of stress on BMI (indirect effect β=0.08, 0.008 to 0.154).
Discussion: Emotional eating is a risk factor for body weight gain in Latvian adults, but stress has independent suppressive effects on weight gain in healthy-weight adults only.
Title: Opposing emotion-mediated effects of stress on body mass index for healthy- and over-weight Latvians
Ieva Salina; [email protected]; Department of Sports and Nutrition, Rigas Stradins University, Latvia
Māra Grundmane; [email protected]; Department of Sports and Nutrition, Rigas Stradins University, Latvia
E. Leigh Gibson; [email protected], Department of Psychology, University of Roehampton, London; UK
Background: In Latvia, 26% of adults are obese. We investigated associations of stress, emotional eating, work demands and diet with body mass index (BMI) in working Latvian adults, and examined whether associations of stress and emotional eating with BMI vary with weight status.
Methods: A cross-sectional online survey assessed psychosocial experiences of work (Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire III; COPSOQ), self-reported weight, height, weight changes, eating attitudes (DEBQ), appetite changes due to COVID-19, working situation, negative affect (DASS-21) and diet (EPIC FFQ) in Latvian adults. Participants were recruited by e-mailing companies, and through social media cooperating with Latvian influencers. Analyses included 874 currently working adults (808 women), mean age = 32.1 years, range 21 to 65. A stress scale was derived from relevant COPSOQ items. Mediation analyses tested whether associations between stress and BMI may be mediated by emotional eating, and separately for healthy-weight adults (HW: 18.5<BMI<25; n=575) vs. those with BMI>25 (OWOB; n=268).
Findings: For HW, higher stress predicted lower BMI (standardised coefficient β=-0.113, p=0.01) despite stress predicting higher emotional eating (DEBQ-E; β=0.347, p<0.0001), which in turn predicted higher BMI (indirect effect β=0.058, bootstrapped 95% CI, 0.028 to 0.091). By contrast, in OWOB, stress predicted higher BMI (β=0.133, p=0.029) and strongly predicted emotional eating (β=0.535, p<0.0001), which in turn fully mediated the effect of stress on BMI (indirect effect β=0.08, 0.008 to 0.154).
Discussion: Emotional eating is a risk factor for body weight gain in Latvian adults, but stress has independent suppressive effects on weight gain in healthy-weight adults only.
| Original language | English |
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| Number of pages | 1 |
| Publication status | Accepted/In press - 14 May 2021 |
| Event | 35th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) - Online, Bratislava, Slovakia Duration: 23 Aug 2021 → 27 Aug 2021 Conference number: 35 http://2021.ehps.net |
Conference
| Conference | 35th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) |
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| Abbreviated title | EHPS 2021 |
| Country/Territory | Slovakia |
| City | Bratislava |
| Period | 23/08/21 → 27/08/21 |
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Field of Science*
- 3.3 Health sciences
Publication Type*
- 3.4. Other publications in conference proceedings (including local)