When food becomes an obsession Overweight is related to food-related obsessive-compulsive behavior

DOI

In this study, it was examined whether overweight is associated with food-related obsessions and compulsions. Participants with a healthy weight (n = 27) and participants who were overweight (n = 33) filled out the Yale-Brown-Cornell Eating Disorder Scale, the Eating Obsessive-Compulsive Scale, and the Emotional and Behavioral Reactions to Intrusions Questionnaire to assess frequency, distress, control, and reactance associated with food-related preoccupations and compulsions. Overweight participants showed increased food-related preoccupations, compulsive eating, and heightened emotional and behavioral reactance compared to participants with a healthy weight. Increased food-related obsessive-compulsiveness was also associated with unhealthy eating patterns.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/S98F15
Related Identifier https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316687632
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/S98F15
Provenance
Creator Houben, Katrijn ORCID logo; Jansen, Anita ORCID logo
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor Houben, Katrijn; faculty data manager FPN
Publication Year 2018
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
OpenAccess false
Contact Houben, Katrijn (Maastricht University); faculty data manager FPN (Maastricht University)
Representation
Resource Type survey data; Dataset
Format application/x-spss-sav
Size 42158
Version 1.1
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences