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The moderating role of sleep duration on momentary relations between negative affect and loss‐of‐control eating in children and adolescents
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The moderating role of sleep duration on momentary relations between negative affect and loss‐of‐control eating in children and adolescents

Stephanie M. Manasse, Alissa A. Haedt‐Matt, Kathryn E. Smith, Amy H. Egbert, Katie O’Sullivan, Dorit Koren, Scott Engel and Andrea B. Goldschmidt
European eating disorders review, v 30(6), pp 815-822
Nov 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2908
PMID: 35474597
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10860376View
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Abstract

adolescents loss-of-control eating negative affect obesity sleep
Objective Loss‐of‐control (LOC) eating is associated with eating disorders and obesity, and thus it is imperative to understand its momentary risk factors in order to improve intervention efforts. Negative affect has been proposed as a momentary risk factor for LOC eating, but the evidence for its effects in children and adolescents is mixed. Short sleep duration (which is very common in youth), may be one variable that moderates the relation between negative affect and subsequent LOC eating. As such, we aimed to examine the moderating role of within‐person sleep duration on the momentary relations between negative affect and subsequent LOC eating. Method We recruited children (N = 30) with overweight/obesity ages 8‐14, who completed a 2‐week ecological momentary assessment protocol assessing negative affect and LOC eating several times per day, while also wearing a sleep actigraphy device and completing sleep diaries. Results Consistent with hypotheses, within‐person sleep duration moderated the next‐day momentary relation between within‐person negative affect and LOC eating, such that shorter sleep duration strengthened the positive relation between negative affect and loss‐of‐control eating. Conclusions Results suggest that, in children and adolescents, fluctuations in sleep duration may influence susceptibility to losing control over eating after experiencing negative affect. Future research should further investigate other metrics of sleep disturbance as they relate to emotion regulation and LOC eating. Such research will set the stage for augmenting paediatric interventions to better target maintenance factors for LOC eating. Highlights The present study examined the moderating role of previous night sleep duration on the momentary relationship between negative affect and LOC eating in children and young adolescents Shorter previous night sleep duration strengthened the prospective relations between negative affect and subsequent LOC eating the next day Findings suggest that increasing sleep duration may improve LOC eating in response to negative affect

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Psychiatry
Psychology, Clinical
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