Increases in emotional eating during early adolescence and associations with appearance teasing by parents and peers, rejection, victimization, depression, and social anxiety - Webb HJ, Kerin JL, Zimmer-Gembeck MJ.

Emotional eating, defined as eating in response to affect, may increase during early adolescence, a time of heightened emotionality and increased prevalence of emotional disorders. We investigated change in emotional eating, while also testing the influenc...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news