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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
No evidence for effects of negative emotions on eating behaviour in overweight children
Reinhold G Laessle1, Simone Schulz
1Department of Clinical and Physiological Psychology, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, 54286, Trier, Germany, laessle@uni-trier.de.
Abstract:
Negative emotions have been hypothesised to trigger a short-term eating pattern in the obese that leads to a high calorie intake. The present study induced emotions of different quality (negative, neutral, positive) and compared laboratory eating behaviour in overweight and normal weight children. No significant emotion related differences in cumulative food intake curves during a laboratory meal were found. Results point to an adequate regulation of hunger and satiety in children, which possibly cannot be maintained during adulthood.
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