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. 2014 Jun;56(6):659-66.
doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000172.

Effects of emotional eating and short sleep duration on weight gain in female employees

Tatjana van Strien  1 , Paul G Koenders
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Effects of emotional eating and short sleep duration on weight gain in female employees

Tatjana van Strien et al. J Occup Environ Med. 2014 Jun.

Abstract

Objective: To investigate whether there is an interaction between emotional eating and sleep duration on weight change and whether this effect is stronger in women.

Design: One-year follow-up study.

Setting: Banking environment.

Participants: 553 women and 911 men.

Measurements and results: Self-reported emotional eating and body mass index (BMI) at T1 were measured in 2008, and sleep duration and BMI at follow-up (T2) were measured in 2009. A significant emotional eating-sleep duration interaction on BMI change was found in women, but not in men.

Conclusions: The finding that the highest weight gain was found in women who combined short sleep duration with high emotional eating-both of them are markers of (chronic) distress-suggests a possible role of poor psychological health and (chronic) stress in this relationship.

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