Ambivalence toward palatable food and emotional eating predict XXXX . Results of a longitudinal study with four waves.

@entity1 @entity7298 @entity353
Weight fluctuations pose serious challenges to @entity1 's health. Research suggests that the interplay between cognitive dietary restraint and counter-regulative @entity7298 impairs weight control. In a random sample from the general population (N   =   2733, 49% male), a longitudinal survey was conducted over 4 consecutive years (2010-2013). Self-reported weight was used to calculate the variance of three weight changes from one wave to the next. Separate regression analyses for @entity1 and @entity1 were conducted. The dependent variable was weight fluctuation, and the independent variables were eating styles (emotional, external, and restrained) and ambivalence toward palatable food. Age and weight changes between the fourth and first years were controlled. A significant positive effect of emotional eating for @entity1 and @entity1 , and a significant positive effect of ambivalence for @entity1 , were found. @entity1 who demonstrated high levels of emotional eating, and @entity1 who had high levels of ambivalence in the beginning of the study, had more extreme relative @entity353 in the consecutive years than did @entity1 with low levels of emotional eating or @entity1 with low levels of ambivalence. Restrained and external eating had no effect. The results suggest that emotional eating and ambivalence toward palatable food need to be addressed to prevent health-damaging @entity353 . Furthermore, ambivalence toward palatable food was revealed as an additional @entity7298 tendency beyond emotional eating that must be considered to understand the interplay between dietary restraint and @entity7298 .
