The Home Environment Shapes Emotional Eating.

• Autores: Moritz Herle, Alison Fildes, Frühling V. Rijsdijk, Silje Steinsbekk, Clare Llewellyn
• Localización: Child development, ISSN 0009-3920, Vol. 89, Nº. 4, 2018, págs. 1423-1434
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Emotional overeating (EOE) is the tendency to eat more in response to negative emotions; its etiology in early life is unknown. We established the relative genetic and environmental influences on EOE in toddlerhood and early childhood. Data were from Gemini, a population-based cohort of 2,402 British twins born in 2007. EOE was measured using the "emotional overeating" scale of the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) at 16 months and 5 years. A longitudinal quantitative genetic model established that genetic influences on EOE were minimal; on the other hand, shared environmental influences explained most of the variance. EOE was moderately stable from 16 months to 5 years and continuing environmental factors shared by twin pairs at both ages explained the longitudinal association. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]