Abstract:
Individuals eat food in response to their emotions. It is aimed to examine the relationship between emotional eating behaviors and body perception of women. This correlation study was conducted with 210 women in 2022-2023. The Information Form, Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire and The Body Image Scale were administered online through a structured questionnaire created in Google Forms. IBM SPSS v26 (R) software was used in the analysis of the data. 124 of the participants (59%) are between 18-25; 23 of them (11%) are between 26-33; 28 of them (13.3%) are between 34-41; 18 of them (8.6%) are between 42-50; and finally 17 of them (8.1%) are above 51 years old. The variables body image and emotional eating were found to be strongly correlated. It was concluded that there is a significant relationship between body image and emotional eating. It was concluded that there was no positive correlation between body image and emotional eating, negative correlation between restrictive eating and body image, and no significant correlation between external eating and body image.
