The Home Environment Shapes Emotional Eating

Moritz Herle; Alison Fildes; Frühling Rijsdijk; Silje Steinsbekk; Clare Llewellyn

doi:10.1111/cdev.12799

The Home Environment Shapes Emotional Eating

Moritz Herle, Alison Fildes, Frühling Rijsdijk, Silje Steinsbekk, Clare Llewellyn^*

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Emotional overeating (EOE) is the tendency to eat more in response to negative emotions; its etiology in early life is unknown. We established the relative genetic and environmental influences on EOE in toddlerhood and early childhood. Data were from Gemini, a population-based cohort of 2,402 British twins born in 2007. EOE was measured using the “emotional overeating” scale of the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) at 16 months and 5 years. A longitudinal quantitative genetic model established that genetic influences on EOE were minimal; on the other hand, shared environmental influences explained most of the variance. EOE was moderately stable from 16 months to 5 years and continuing environmental factors shared by twin pairs at both ages explained the longitudinal association.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1423-1434
Number of pages	12
Journal	Child Development
Volume	89
Issue number	4
Early online date	25 Apr 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12799
Publication status	Published - 13 Jul 2018

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