Ti Hsu

Mindfulness, depression, and emotional eating: The moderating role of nonjudging of inner experience.

Appetite December 26, 2020 Ti Hsu, Catherine A Forestell

Emotional eating is defined as the tendency to increase food consumption in order to modify negative emotional states. Theories on emotional eating attribute its cause to inadequate emotion regulation, specifically an inability to draw awareness to and accept distress. Mindfulness, or the ability to pay attention to and accept internal and external experiences, is thought to attenuate the...