APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

Stress and Emotional Eating in Adolescent Girls: Attachment Styles As Moderator

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Developmental

  • Karess Taylor
    Eastern Michigan University
  • Sarah Dean
    Eastern Michigan University
  • Ellen Hart
    Eastern Michigan University
  • Chong Chow
    Eastern Michigan University

Abstract

This study examined the connection between stress, emotional eating, and attachment styles.
Girls who were high in stress engaged in more emotional eating when they were high in attachment anxiety. In contrast, stress was not significantly related to emotional eating for girls who were low in attachment anxiety.

Stress

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