Unveiling the Association Between Emotional Eating and Psychosocial Health in Spanish Adolescents: The Eating Healthy and Daily Life Activities (EHDLA) Study
Authors' conclusion
These findings suggest that adolescents who engage in emotional eating may experience greater psychosocial challenges.
Study context
- Population
- Spanish adolescents aged 12–17 years (56.9% female) from all three secondary schools in the Valle de Ricote (Spain), EHDLA study
- Participants
- 633 adolescents
- Outcome
- Association between emotional eating (EES-C) and psychosocial health (SDQ score), generalised linear models
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
SDQ score by emotional eating (EES-C)
- Overall emotional eating: unstandardized B
- 0.04 (95% CI 0.02-0.07, p = 0.001)
- Emotional eating in response to anger: B
- 0.16 (95% CI 0.07-0.25, p = 0.001)
- Emotional eating in response to anxiety: B
- 0.13 (95% CI 0.05-0.21, p = 0.001)
- Emotional eating in response to restlessness: B
- 0.17 (95% CI 0.06-0.29, p = 0.004)
- Emotional eating in response to helplessness: B
- 0.25 (95% CI 0.06-0.45, p = 0.011)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Unveiling the Association Between Emotional Eating and Psychosocial Health in Spanish Adolescents: The EHDLA Study. Pediatr Obes. Published 15 September 2025. doi:10.
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