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Interrelationships among perceived stress, food addiction, and body mass index
Author(s) -
Lin YiSyuan,
Yeh JhihHan,
Chien Yiwen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2019.33.1_supplement.753.6
Subject(s) - food addiction , overeating , overweight , addiction , body mass index , obesity , perceived stress scale , stressor , psychology , beck depression inventory , depression (economics) , clinical psychology , emotional eating , psychiatry , medicine , stress (linguistics) , anxiety , eating behavior , linguistics , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics
The degree of perceived stress affects the emotional response of humans, leads to behavioral changes, and is more likely to trigger physical illness. Many studies have indicated that the level of stress and amount of stressors are related to overeating and unhealthy eating behavior, which will cause obesity in the long run. According to the statistics in Ministry of Health and Welfare, the number of visits for mentally stressful diseases in Taiwan has doubled year by year, and adults who are overweight and obese have continued to grow after reaching 43% in 2014. An assumption about whether perceived pressure is a factor affecting the obesity has made and whether food addiction is posing as an intermediate factor has yearn more and more attention in oversea studies. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore whether perceived stress affects the development of food addiction and body mass index. The study was conducted through online questionnaire, composed of the basic data form, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Beck Depression Inventory‐Short Form and the Yale Food Addiction Scale. We analyzed 1019 valid questionnaire. The results showed 132 participants met the food addiction criteria, accounting for 12.95% of the total sample. Among them, there were 54 overweight and obese people, accounting for 40.91% of the food addiction participants. Moreover, there were 22 people with mild depression among the samples meeting the food addiction criteria, 54 with moderate depression and 42 with severe depression, in which presented as proportion of 16.67%, 40.91% and 31.82%. By dividing the sum score of the perceived stress scale with the quartile method, 83.3% of the food addiction sample met the top quartile. The study expects that perceived stress level is positively correlated with the prevalence of food addiction, food addiction is positively correlated with BMI, and those with higher perceived stress but lower degree of depression have greater tendency of food addiction and greater BMI values than those with higher perceived stress and higher degree of depression. This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal .