The first aim of the current study is to explore the levels of emotional
awareness among obese people using the LEAS and to assess
their use of emotional eating. The second aim is to examine the impact
of the level of emotional awareness on emotional eating in obese
women. Finally, this study explores the factors that affect
patient levels of emotional awareness such as parental bonding.
Some studies of patients who suffering from eating disorders
have already explored the relationships among family organization,
emotional awareness and emotion regulation from a developmental
perspective. De Panfilis, Rabbaglio, Rossi, Zita, and Maggini
(2003) found a correlation between maternal care and the abilities
to self-identify and describe feelings among patients who suffer
from an eating disorder, whereas Fukunishi (1998) found the same
results in a sample of college students with subclinical eating disorder
symptoms. Tasca et al. (2009) found that emotion regulation
mediated the relationship between attachment style and eating
disorder symptoms.