INFLUENCE OF EMOTIONAL DETERMINANTS ON THE FOOD CHOICES OF THE PORTUGUESE

Raquel P. F. Guiné, Ana Cristina Ferrão, Paula Correia, Ana Paula Cardoso, Manuela Ferreira and João Duarte
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Raquel P. F. Guiné: Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
Ana Cristina Ferrão: Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
Paula Correia: Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
Ana Paula Cardoso: Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
Manuela Ferreira: Polytechnic Institute of Viseu
João Duarte: Polytechnic Institute of Viseu

EUREKA: Social and Humanities, 2019, issue 5, 31-44

Abstract:

Food choices are influenced by many factors, such as emotional. When people eat, driven by emotional factors, they often lose control, which may lead to eating disorders. Therefore, this work aimed at studying the influence that emotional determinants had on people’s food choices. It was undertaken a descriptive cross-sectional study by means of a questionnaire on a non-probabilistic sample of 1314 participants. The data was collected among a sample of the Portuguese population and measured if people´s food choices were influenced by emotional determinants. The results revealed that the participants’ food choices were, in general, slightly influenced by emotional determinants (mean scores between –0.5 and 0.5, on a scale from –2 to +2). There were found significant differences in all of the variables under study. The participants, who already experienced an episode of binge-eating, were the ones that obtained the highest mean score (0.63±0.79), meaning that in this case those participants’ food choices were influenced by emotional determinants. These results support the premise that emotional determinants are influenced by the characteristics of each individual and also the existence of a positive association between emotional eating and the presence of eating disorders, especially, binge-eating.

Keywords: Eating disorders; emotional determinants; emotional eating; food choices; individual characteristics; survey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-09-30
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