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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Proffitt Leyva, Randi P

Titel

The impact of childhood unpredictability, interoceptive body awareness, and blood glucose on eating behavior

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Life History Theory predicts that growing up in harsh and unpredictable environments should promote the development of adult phenotypes that can survive such environments. Guided by these insights, researchers have recently proposed that growing up poor should promote eating strategies that promote survivability in resource scarce environments. Here, I build on this research, examining the role that body awareness plays in regulating patterns of eating behavior observed among those from unpredictable environments. Across two studies, I found that individuals’ exposure to unpredictable environments predicted lower body awareness, which predicted eating in the absence of hunger. Results suggest that body awareness may be a critical mediator of behavioral strategies that promote survival in unpredictable environments, including eating in the absence of hunger.