Personality Profile And Affect Regulation In Relation to Food Addiction In a Sample of Obese Females
Rehab Mohamed Naguib;
Abstract
Overweight and obesity are defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that may impair health; it is a growing epidemic that affects women more often than men. According to the most recent WHO statistics in 2010, Egypt is ranked the first fattest African country, and the 14th fattest country in the world, with nearly 70% of its population is overweight or obese.
Increasing evidence suggests that obesity is not a simple problem of will power or self-control, but a complex disorder involving appetite regulation and energy metabolism that is associated with a variety of co-morbid conditions. As individual responses to obesity treatments are highly heterogeneous, thus personality assessment may be useful in obesity management and call for additional research to gather information about the role of personality variables in obesity treatment success.
Although humans have an impressive capacity for self-regulation, failures are common and people lose control of their behavior in a wide variety of circumstances. Such failures are an important cause of several contemporary societal problems like obesity, addiction and poor financial decisions. The maintenance of physical and mental health is determined in part by an individual's self-regulatory ability. Affect regulation, or the ability to modify valenced states to achieve optimal well-being, is closely linked with an individual's capacity to selectively engage in behavior congruent with long-term goals while simultaneously avoiding behavior that is solely focused on temporarily improving affect.
Among the most important triggers of self-regulation failure are negative emotions, when people become upset they sometimes comfort themselves with food, alcohol or drugs, act aggressively, spend too much money, engage in risky behavior, including unprotected sex, and fail to pursue important life goals.
It is widely accepted that emotional arousal leads to changes in eating behavior, because physiological reactions to negative emotions or stress mimic the internal sensations associated with feeding-induced satiety or loss of appetite, while decrease of food intake have been considered natural physiological responses to negative emotions. In contrast, an increase in food intake in response to negative emotions “emotional eating” has been considered to be an ‘inapt’ response.
Increasing evidence suggests that obesity is not a simple problem of will power or self-control, but a complex disorder involving appetite regulation and energy metabolism that is associated with a variety of co-morbid conditions. As individual responses to obesity treatments are highly heterogeneous, thus personality assessment may be useful in obesity management and call for additional research to gather information about the role of personality variables in obesity treatment success.
Although humans have an impressive capacity for self-regulation, failures are common and people lose control of their behavior in a wide variety of circumstances. Such failures are an important cause of several contemporary societal problems like obesity, addiction and poor financial decisions. The maintenance of physical and mental health is determined in part by an individual's self-regulatory ability. Affect regulation, or the ability to modify valenced states to achieve optimal well-being, is closely linked with an individual's capacity to selectively engage in behavior congruent with long-term goals while simultaneously avoiding behavior that is solely focused on temporarily improving affect.
Among the most important triggers of self-regulation failure are negative emotions, when people become upset they sometimes comfort themselves with food, alcohol or drugs, act aggressively, spend too much money, engage in risky behavior, including unprotected sex, and fail to pursue important life goals.
It is widely accepted that emotional arousal leads to changes in eating behavior, because physiological reactions to negative emotions or stress mimic the internal sensations associated with feeding-induced satiety or loss of appetite, while decrease of food intake have been considered natural physiological responses to negative emotions. In contrast, an increase in food intake in response to negative emotions “emotional eating” has been considered to be an ‘inapt’ response.
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| Title | Personality Profile And Affect Regulation In Relation to Food Addiction In a Sample of Obese Females | Other Titles | تأثير سمات الشخصية وتنظيم الحالة المزاجية على إدمان الطعام في عينة من الإناث البدينات | Authors | Rehab Mohamed Naguib | Issue Date | 2014 |
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