Favieri Francesca, Marini Andrea, Casagrande Maria
Department of Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Department of Dynamic, Clinical and Health Psychology, "Sapienza" University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2021 Jan 19;11(1):11. doi: 10.3390/bs11010011.
The worldwide prevalence of obesity has dramatically increased, mostly in children and adolescents. The Emotional Eating theoretical model has proposed that the failure in emotional regulation could represent a risk factor for establishing maladaptive overeating behavior that represents an inadequate response to negative emotions and allows increasing body-weight. This systematic review investigates the relationship between overeating and both emotional regulation and emotional intelligence in childhood and adolescence, considering both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. Moreover, another goal of the review is evaluating whether emotional regulation and emotional intelligence can cause overeating behaviors. The systematic search was conducted according to the PRISMA-statement in the databases Medline, PsychArtcles, PsychInfo, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Sciences, and allows 484 records to be extracted. Twenty-six studies were selected according to inclusion (e.g., studies focused on children and adolescents without clinical conditions; groups of participants overweight or with obesity) and exclusion (e.g., studies that adopted qualitative assessment or cognitive-affective tasks to measure emotional variables; reviews, commentary, or brief reports) criteria detailed in the methods. Cross-sectional studies showed a negative association between emotional regulation and overeating behavior that was confirmed by longitudinal studies. These findings highlighted the role of maladaptive emotion regulation on overeating and being overweight. The relationship between these constructs in children and adolescents was consistent. The results indicated the complexity of this association, which would be influenced by many physiological, psychological, and social factors. These findings underline the need for further studies focused on emotion regulation in the development of overeating. They should analyze the mediation role of other variables (e.g., attachment style, peer pressure) and identify interventions to prevent and reduce worldwide overweight prevalence.
全球肥胖患病率急剧上升，主要发生在儿童和青少年中。情绪性进食理论模型提出，情绪调节失败可能是形成适应不良的暴饮暴食行为的一个风险因素，这种行为是对负面情绪的不充分反应，并会导致体重增加。本系统评价研究了儿童和青少年时期暴饮暴食与情绪调节和情商之间的关系，同时考虑了横断面研究和纵向研究。此外，该评价的另一个目标是评估情绪调节和情商是否会导致暴饮暴食行为。根据PRISMA声明在Medline、PsychArtcles、PsychInfo、PubMed、Scopus和Web of Sciences数据库中进行了系统检索，共提取了484条记录。根据纳入标准（如针对无临床疾病的儿童和青少年的研究；超重或肥胖的参与者群体）和排除标准（如采用定性评估或认知情感任务来测量情绪变量的研究；综述、评论或简短报告），从方法中详细列出的标准中筛选出26项研究。横断面研究表明情绪调节与暴饮暴食行为之间存在负相关，纵向研究也证实了这一点。这些发现突出了适应不良的情绪调节在暴饮暴食和超重方面的作用。儿童和青少年中这些构念之间的关系是一致的。结果表明这种关联的复杂性，它会受到许多生理、心理和社会因素的影响。这些发现强调了进一步开展关于暴饮暴食发展过程中情绪调节研究的必要性。他们应该分析其他变量（如依恋风格、同伴压力）的中介作用，并确定预防和降低全球超重患病率的干预措施。
