A comprehensive model of food addiction in patients with binge-eating symptomatology: the essential role of negative urgency

Food addiction has been widely researched in past years. However, there is a debate on the mechanisms underlying addictive eating and a better understanding of the processes associated to these behaviours is needed. Previous studies have found characteristic psychological correlates of food addiction, such as high negative urgency, emotion regulation difficulties and low self-directedness, in different samples of adults with addictive eating patterns. Still, it seems difficult to disentangle effects independent from general eating disorder psychopathology.
Source: Comprehensive Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: research