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Examining the Association Between Executive Functioning and Eating Behaviors in Adolescents From Low-Income Backgrounds

Shields, Clarissa
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1587565927845972

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2020, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Adolescents from low-income backgrounds are a high-risk population for obesity and poor inhibitory control. Dietary restraint, the intent to restrict food intake, has also been associated with higher weight status in youth. Inhibitory control, the cognitive process that allows the inhibition of a response, such as restriction of high energy-dense (HED) foods, may vary by weight status and moderate the effect of dietary restriction on zBMI among adolescents. The overall goal of the study was to examine the interplay between inhibitory control, dietary restraint, and zBMI among 51 adolescents (ages 12-17; 54.4% female) from low-income backgrounds. Adolescents completed dietary restraint, inhibitory control, and depressive symptom measures, while a parent/primary caregiver completed demographic information. The study first aimed to explore whether inhibitory control abilities differed by weight status in adolescents from low-income backgrounds. The second aim was to examine if dietary restraint was associated with zBMI within a low-income sample of adolescents. Lastly, the study aimed to explore if inhibitory control buffered the association between dietary restraint and zBMI in adolescents from low-income backgrounds. ANCOVA, regression, and moderation analyses controlled for the covariate depressive symptoms. Inhibitory control trended towards significantly differing by weight status, F(2, 47)= 3.06, p=.056. Dietary restraint was positively associated with zBMI F(1, 48)= 12.02, p<.001, but inhibitory control did not moderate this association. Dietary restriction may have more significant implications on weight status among low-income adolescents in higher HED food environments. Further multi-method research is needed to explore eating and neurocognitive correlates of pediatric obesity in low-income adolescents, while also examining the environmental context.
Amy Sato (Advisor)
69 p.
Psychology
adolescent zBMI, dietary restraint, inhibitory control

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  • Shields, C. (2020). Examining the Association Between Executive Functioning and Eating Behaviors in Adolescents From Low-Income Backgrounds [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1587565927845972

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  • Shields, Clarissa. Examining the Association Between Executive Functioning and Eating Behaviors in Adolescents From Low-Income Backgrounds . 2020. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1587565927845972.

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  • Shields, Clarissa. "Examining the Association Between Executive Functioning and Eating Behaviors in Adolescents From Low-Income Backgrounds ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1587565927845972

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