Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health and Public Health, University of Leipzig, Ph.-Rosenthal-Str. 55, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Sci Rep. 2021 Jul 19;11(1):14717. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94279-1.
Anxiety is a widespread phenomenon that affects various behaviors. We want to analyze in how far anxiety is connected to eating behaviors since this is one potential pathway to understanding eating-related health outcomes like obesity or eating disorders. We used data from the population-based LIFE-Adult-Study (n = 5019) to analyze the connection between anxiety (GAD-7) and the three dimensions of eating behaviors (FEV)-Cognitive Restraint, Disinhibition, and Hunger-while controlling for sociodemographic variables, smoking, physical activity, personality, and social support. Multivariate regression analyses showed significant positive associations between anxiety and Disinhibition as well as Hunger, but not between anxiety and Cognitive Restraint. Interventions that help individuals to better regulate and cope with anxiety, could be one potential pathway to reducing eating disorders and obesity in the population.
焦虑是一种普遍存在的现象,会影响各种行为。我们希望分析焦虑与饮食行为的关系,因为这是理解肥胖或饮食失调等与饮食相关的健康结果的潜在途径之一。我们使用基于人群的 LIFE-Adult-Study(n=5019)的数据来分析焦虑(GAD-7)与饮食行为的三个维度(FEV-认知约束、抑制和饥饿)之间的关系,同时控制社会人口统计学变量、吸烟、体育活动、个性和社会支持。多元回归分析显示,焦虑与Disinhibition 和 Hunger 呈显著正相关,但与认知约束无显著相关。帮助个体更好地调节和应对焦虑的干预措施可能是减少人群中饮食失调和肥胖的潜在途径之一。