Understanding Emotional Eating through the lens of Alexithymia and Psychological Distress among Young Adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Emerging adulthood is a pivotal developmental stage wherein unresolved emotional difficulties often manifest in maladaptive behaviour patterns. Emotional eating has emerged as an ill-adjusted coping mechanism frequently associated with elevated psychological distress and deficits in emotional processing. Alexithymia, defined as the inability to identify and articulate emotions has been strongly implicated in such behavioural patterns. Psychological distress, a state of physical, mental, or emotional suffering experienced by an individual further exacerbates vulnerability to emotional eating. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of alexithymia and psychological distress on emotional eating among young adults. A sample of 50 young adults was collected in the age range of 18-27 years. Standardised tools were used to measure emotional eating, alexithymia and psychological distress. The results revealed a significant positive correlation between alexithymia and emotional eating. The results also state a significant positive correlation between psychological distress and emotional eating. Moreover, a positive correlation is also observed between alexithymia and psychological distress among young adults.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".