Predicting emotional eating from emotional awareness
The results are presented in Table 3 and Fig. 2.
We found a significant positive relationship between the total
LEAS score and the emotional eating score, which accounted for
4% of the explained variance in obese patients. Moreover, we found
a significant positive relationship between the LEAS self and emotional
eating scores, which accounted for 6% of the explained variance
in obese patients. These results underline that obese patients
with higher levels of emotional awareness of oneself report more
emotional eating.
Importantly, the level of the emotional awareness of others did
not affect the use of emotional eating.