Emotional dimensions of eating behavior and quality of life in adolescents/youth

Figueiredo, Anabela; Paciência, Eva; Sousa, Sandra; Martins, Emília; Fernanda, Martins; Mendes, Francisco

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Emotional dimensions of eating behavior and quality of life in adolescents/youth

2018Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Figueiredo, Anabela
dc.contributor.author	Paciência, Eva
dc.contributor.author	Sousa, Sandra
dc.contributor.author	Martins, Emília
dc.contributor.author	Fernanda, Martins
dc.contributor.author	Mendes, Francisco
dc.date.accessioned	2019-02-20T12:13:45Z
dc.date.available	2019-02-20T12:13:45Z
dc.date.issued	2018
dc.description.abstract	The importance of eating behavior (EB) in quality of life is unquestionable. Hence, it will be interesting to identify the individual factors related to the emotional dimensions that influence the EB. This nonexperimental study aims to assess the relationship between eating behavior and the quality of life in adolescents and youth, namely the impact of the three eating emotional dimensions (restriction, disinhibition and hunger). Additionally, this paper discusses the socio educational intervention to promote healthy eating. This is an ex post facto study with a convenience sample of 108 Portuguese adolescents/youth with a mean age of 15.21 ± 1.42. The Portuguese version of the KINDL measuring quality of life and the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ) measuring eating behavior and a sociodemographic questionnaire were applied on the sample. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSS-IBM24, with a 95% confidence level. Results in the TFEQ revealed adolescents/youth with 1.84 ± .50, 1.99 ± .54, and 2.55 ± .56, respectively in the restriction, disinhibition and hunger. Adolescents/youth with low disinhibition and hunger in TFEQ showed better quality of life than individuals with higher levels of both eating emotional dimensions (p = .007 and p = .013, respectively). Restriction dimension seems independent of the quality of life. The relationship between the emotional dimensions of EB and quality of life justifies a socio educational intervention to promote a healthy eating behaviour among adolescents/youth. This relationship may be mediated by the effects of those dimensions on results on food balance and its organic repercussions. Thus, intervention should focus on awareness of those effects. However, this mediation needs to be better investigated.	pt_PT
dc.description.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	https://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2018.11.17	pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn	2357-1330
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.19/5406
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Future Academy	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Emotional dimensions	pt_PT
dc.subject	eating behaviour	pt_PT
dc.subject	quality of life	pt_PT
dc.subject	adolescents/youth	pt_PT
dc.title	Emotional dimensions of eating behavior and quality of life in adolescents/youth	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.endPage	164	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	158	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Science	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	XLVIII	pt_PT
person.familyName	Mendes
person.givenName	Francisco
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person.identifier.orcid	0000-0001-8504-8676
rcaap.rights	openAccess	pt_PT
rcaap.type	article	pt_PT
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