An investigation into the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and food addiction: The role of urgency and emotion dysregulation
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Abstract
Food addiction is one of the most common substance or behavioural addictions and is linked to negative consequences. Thus, there is a need to investigate the risk factors associated with food addiction. The current study examined if emotion dysregulation mediated the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and food addiction and whether affective impulsivity (negative and positive urgency) uniquely moderated this relationship. Participants ( N = 602) recruited from a large university completed an online survey consisting of several self-report measures, including symptoms of food addiction, childhood adversity, emotion dysregulation and affective impulsivity. A total of 6.5% of the participants met the cut-off for mild ( n = 39) levels of food addiction, 3.8% met the cut-off for moderate ( n = 23), and 5.0% met the cut-off for severe ( n = 30) food addiction. Logistic regression results demonstrated that physical neglect, emotional abuse, physical abuse and household substance use were significant predictors of whether someone met the criteria for food addiction. Moderated mediation results indicated that adverse childhood experiences were positively associated with emotion dysregulation, affective impulsivity, and food addiction. However, contrary to our hypothesis we did not find significant moderated-mediation between emotion dysregulation, food addiction and affective impulsivity. The findings may carry implications for preventing and treating food addiction among university students with adverse childhood experiences. Future longitudinal research is necessary to understand how experiences of childhood adversities and emotion dysregulation can increase the risk of developing food addiction. • Childhood adversities predict emotion dysregulation, urgency, and food addiction. • Emotion dysregulation and food addiction are significantly associated. • We did not find support for our hypothesized moderated-mediation model. • Emotion regulation skills may help individuals with food addiction.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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