Exploring potential differential relationships between social anxiety and emotional eating amongst normative vs. academically gifted students

Brian P. Godor, Recep Uysal, Anne van der Poel and Pauline Jansen

Gifted and Talented International, 2020, vol. 35, issue 2, 100-109

Abstract: The social environment, which plays a critical role, is an important factor for self-development during adolescence. On the other hand, gifted adolescents may be relatively at risk in social relationships. Therefore, the first objective of the current research is to examine the relationship between social anxiety and emotional eating in normative adolescents. The second objective is to examine whether this relationship would be different for academically gifted adolescents. For both groups, three constructs of social anxiety were examined: fear of negative evaluation, social avoidance and distress for new or unfamiliar situations, and social avoidance and distress for general situations. In total, 429 Dutch high school students completed measures of emotional eating and social anxiety (normative = 246, gifted = 83). The results from a confirmatory factor analysis showed that for normative adolescents only fear of negative evaluation was positively related to emotional eating (p

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DOI: 10.1080/15332276.2021.1880302

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