Date of Award

1-1-2009

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology

Program

Counseling Psychology

Content Description

1 online resource (ix, 97 pages) : illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Matthew P Martens

Committee Members

Sharon Danoff-Burg

Keywords

coping, emotional eating, obesity, overweight, women, Eating disorders in women, Obesity

Subject Categories

Psychology

Abstract

Obesity is a major health crisis in the United States, with approximately two-thirds of the population qualifying as overweight and, of those, almost one half qualifying as obese (CDC, 2007). While there are a myriad of causes of obesity, a great deal of evidence shows that many individuals, and particularly women, eat as a coping response to stress (e.g., Greeno & Wing, 1994). Therefore, one's ability to cope, or the process by which individuals deal with situations that involve stress or threat, may be a factor that contributes to increased body mass index, or BMI, a common measure of obesity. Emotional eating was investigated as a potential mediating variable which could drive this relationship between coping and obesity.

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