Wu Chenjing, Huang Chuangbing, Zhu Hongyan, Yu Yuanlin, Zhang Caiyun, Zhang Wei, He Xianyou
Center for Studies of Psychological Application, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, Ministry of Education, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China.
School of Psychology, Northwest Normal University, 967 Anning Dong Lu, Lanzhou 730071, China.
Foods. 2022 Apr 19;11(9):1180. doi: 10.3390/foods11091180.
Food can relieve an individual's emotions, especially for emotional eaters. For instance, chewing alleviates negative emotions. Solid and liquid foods comprise a huge part of our daily lives, and the chewiness of solid foods is always high. Here, we explored whether people, especially emotional eaters, have higher eating intentions to eat highly chewy foods while experiencing negative emotions by comparing their eating intentions toward solid and liquid foods. To this end, we conducted a survey of 147 participants using a questionnaire (Experiment 1) to understand their eating intention toward five types of food (purple potato, maize, black soya bean, mango, and soybean; each food group contained a solid food and a liquid food) while experiencing negative emotions. The results showed that individuals exhibited higher eating intention toward solid food compared with liquid food while experiencing negative emotions. In Experiment 2, we selected 85 and 65 high-emotional and low-emotional eaters, respectively, and further explored their preference for solid foods. The results showed that individuals with high levels of emotional eating exhibited higher intentions toward solid food while experiencing negative emotions compared with those with low levels of emotional eating. In conclusion, this study proved that individuals' higher eating intentions toward highly chewable food were pronounced among individuals with high levels of emotional eating under negative emotion conditions.
食物可以缓解个体的情绪，尤其是对于情绪化进食者而言。例如，咀嚼能减轻负面情绪。固体和液体食物在我们的日常生活中占了很大一部分，而且固体食物的嚼劲通常很高。在此，我们通过比较人们对固体和液体食物的进食意愿，探究了人们，尤其是情绪化进食者，在经历负面情绪时是否更倾向于食用高嚼劲的食物。为此，我们使用问卷对147名参与者进行了一项调查（实验1），以了解他们在经历负面情绪时对五种食物（紫薯、玉米、黑豆、芒果和大豆；每个食物组都包含一种固体食物和一种液体食物）的进食意愿。结果显示，在经历负面情绪时，与液体食物相比，个体对固体食物表现出更高的进食意愿。在实验2中，我们分别选取了85名高情绪化进食者和65名低情绪化进食者，并进一步探究了他们对固体食物的偏好。结果显示，与低情绪化进食者相比，高情绪化进食者在经历负面情绪时对固体食物表现出更高的意愿。总之，本研究证明，在负面情绪条件下，高情绪化进食者对高可咀嚼性食物的进食意愿更高。
