Yazar "Unal, Gokce" seçeneğine göre listele

Listeleniyor 1 - 2 / 2
  • Küçük Resim Yok
    Öğe
    Evening chronotype and highly processed food consumption: The mediating role of intuitive eating
    (Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, 2026) Esgin, Ozge; Unal, Gokce
    This study examined associations among chronotype, intuitive eating, and highly processed food (HPF) consumption and evaluated the mediating role of intuitive eating, with sex as a potential moderator. This cross-sectional study, conducted via an online survey in T & uuml;rkiye from October 2025 to January 2026, included 610 adults. Participants completed the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ), the Intuitive Eating Scale-2 (IES-2), and the Screening Questionnaire of HPF Consumption. The IES-2 comprises four dimensions: unconditional permission to eat (UPE), eating for physical rather than emotional reasons (EPR), reliance on hunger and satiety cues, and body-food choice congruence (B-FCC). Among participants, 20.3% had an evening chronotype, and 68% reported high HPF consumption. Eveningness was associated with higher UPE (beta = 0.219, p = 0.002) and EPR (beta = 0.148, p = 0.032) and lower B-FCC (beta = -0.225, p = 0.002); however, a sex difference emerged only for EPR, with a weaker association in women (beta = -0.155, p = 0.029). Lower MEQ scores were significantly associated with higher HPF consumption (beta = -0.212, p < 0.001), with no significant sex differences. All analyses were adjusted for age and body mass index. Mediation analyses indicated that UPE (indirect effect: -0.013 for women; -0.022 for men) and B-FCC (-0.006 for women; -0.013 for men) had significant indirect effects linking chronotype to HPF consumption, with no moderating effect of sex. These findings suggest that intuitive eating mechanisms may partly explain the association between evening chronotype and higher HPF consumption.
  • Küçük Resim Yok
    Öğe
    Relationship between food insecurity, intuitive eating, and body mass index among adults: a cross-sectional study in Türkiye
    (Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd, 2026) Unal, Gokce; Esgin, Ozge
    This study examined the relationship between food insecurity, intuitive eating, and body mass index among adults. This cross-sectional study was conducted through face-to-face interviews between January and March 2025 at a public university in T & uuml;rkiye, involving 1166 students and personnel (65.7% women; age range: 19-64 years). Participants answered the Food Insecurity Experience Scale and the Intuitive Eating Scale-2, which has four subdimensions: unconditional permission to eat, eating for physical rather than emotional reasons, reliance on hunger and satiety cues, and body-food choice congruence. Self-reported body weight and height were collected to calculate body mass index. Food insecurity was experienced by 42.7 % of participants. It was associated with lower total Intuitive Eating Scale-2, reliance on hunger and satiety cues, body-food choice congruence (controlled for sex, institutional role, and age), and eating for physical rather than emotional reasons (controlled for sex and institutional role) scores. Sex was not a moderator of the association between food insecurity and intuitive eating. There were no significant interactions between Intuitive Eating Scale-2 total and subdimensions and food security status for body mass index. Overall, our study provides empirical evidence that food insecurity is a significant factor that contributes to low levels of intuitive eating in a large sample of Turkish adults. Further studies should investigate the moderating effect of sex on the association between food insecurity and intuitive eating, while also emphasizing the role of food insecurity in the relationship between intuitive eating habits and body mass index in different populations.