Kauffman Brooke Y, Rogers Andrew H, Bakhshaie Jafar, Mayorga Nubia A, Garza Monica, Ochoa-Perez Melissa, Lemaire Chad, Zvolensky Michael J
Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, Texas, 77204-5502, USA.
Legacy Community Health, Houston, Texas, USA.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2019 Dec;21(6):1217-1223. doi: 10.1007/s10903-019-00862-0.
There is limited understanding of pain and its relationship to emotional eating among Latinos as well as knowledge about potential mechanisms that may underlie their association. We explored whether anxiety sensitivity (fear of the negative consequences of anxiety) explained the relation between pain intensity and emotional eating among a sample of Latinos. Participants were 79 (87.3% female; M = 42.04, SD = 12.01) predominately female Latino attendees of a Federally Qualified Health Center. As hypothesized, results indicated that pain intensity yielded a significant indirect effect through anxiety sensitivity for emotional eating. Alternative models wherein anxiety sensitivity served as the predictor and pain intensity as the indirect effect were also significant. Such novel data highlight the potential bi-directional relationship between pain intensity and anxiety sensitivity in terms of emotional eating. Overall, pain intensity and anxiety sensitivity may serve as mechanisms that underlie emotional eating among Latino adults.
拉丁裔人群对疼痛及其与情绪化进食之间的关系了解有限，对二者关联背后的潜在机制也知之甚少。我们探究了焦虑敏感性（对焦虑负面后果的恐惧）是否能解释拉丁裔样本中疼痛强度与情绪化进食之间的关系。参与者为79名（87.3%为女性；平均年龄M = 42.04岁，标准差SD = 12.01）主要为女性的拉丁裔联邦合格健康中心就诊者。正如假设的那样，结果表明疼痛强度通过焦虑敏感性对情绪化进食产生了显著的间接影响。焦虑敏感性作为预测因素、疼痛强度作为间接影响因素的替代模型也具有显著性。这些新数据凸显了在情绪化进食方面疼痛强度与焦虑敏感性之间潜在的双向关系。总体而言，疼痛强度和焦虑敏感性可能是拉丁裔成年人情绪化进食背后的机制。
