Coaction of Obesity Treatment–Associated Changes in Physical Activity and Emotional Eating

BACKGROUND: Research on coaction suggests improvements in physical activity and emotional eating will occur in a reciprocal manner. AIMS: To determine if changes in body satisfaction mediate relations between physical activity and emotional eating changes and if age affects degree of change in those variables. METHOD: = 52) women participants of a community-based obesity treatment were assessed on behavioral and psychological variables over 3 and 6 months. RESULTS: Improvements in physical activity, anxiety-related emotional eating, body satisfaction, anxiety, and exercise self-efficacy were significant overall. Early adults demonstrated greater reductions in emotional eating. Physical activity increase over 3 months significantly predicted 6-month reduction in emotional eating but not vice versa. Body satisfaction change significantly mediated the physical activity-emotional eating relationships. Changes in anxiety and exercise self-efficacy moderated activity → emotional eating and body satisfaction → physical activity relationships, respectively. CONCLUSION: Findings can inform both theory and behavioral obesity interventions

Anxiety · Developmental psychology · Eating behavior · Emotional eating · Mediation · Moderated mediation · Obesity · Physical activity · Physical therapy · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes · Clinical Psychology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Medicine · Obesity and Health Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology · Internal Medicine

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