Sensory sensitivity mediates the relationship between anxiety and picky eating in children/ adolescents ages 8–17, and in college undergraduates: A replication and age-upward extension
| Autor: | Hana F. Zickgraf, Anjeli R. Elkins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Adolescent Cross-sectional study Child Behavior Sensory system Anxiety Article Feeding and Eating Disorders Eating Food Preferences Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences Picky eating Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Young adult Child Students General Psychology 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Sensory sensitivity Cross-Sectional Studies Etiology Early adolescents Female medicine.symptom Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Appetite |
| ISSN: | 0195-6663 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.appet.2018.06.023 |
| Popis: | This study explores the relationships among anxiety, sensitivity to sensory stimuli, and picky eating (PE). An earlier study in 95 children ages 5-10 found that sensory sensitivity fully mediated the relationship between anxiety and picky eating. We replicated this finding in a sample of 158 children, ages 8-17, and in 813 young adult college students. As in the previous child sample, the relationship between anxiety and picky eating appears to be mediated by sensory sensitivity. This relationship extends into adolescence and young adulthood and holds even in a sample of children with obsessive-compulsive-spectrum and anxiety disorders. However, there may be developmental differences in the relationship between sensory sensitivity and PE; the magnitude of this relationship was significantly greater for children than young adults. Although there was a trend towards a stronger relationship in a subsample of young adults with high anxiety, the effect was still smaller than that observed in children, suggesting that this difference is developmental and not completely driven by higher anxiety in the child sample. Sensory sensitivity is a candidate mechanism of picky eating, although the cross-sectional nature of this study means that we cannot address whether it is an etiological or maintaining mechanism, or both. Implications for behavioral treatment of picky eating in clinically anxious and non-clinical samples are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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