Eating tasty foods to cope, enhance reward, socialize or conform: What other psychological characteristics describe each of these motives?
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DOI: 10.1177/1359105315600240
Abstract: Psychological characteristics associated with eating motives of the Palatable Eating Motives Scale (PEMS) were identified in 192 undergraduates. Coping was characterized by greater BMI, emotion-triggered eating, and eating concern and also by binge-eating and perceived… read more here.
Keywords: binge eating; tasty foods; eating tasty; foods cope ... See more keywords