Why We Eat What We Eat: Assessing Dispositional and In-the-Moment Eating Motives by Using Ecological Momentary Assessment
JMIR mhealth and uhealth2019Vol. 8(1), pp. e13191–e13191
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Deborah R. Wahl, Karoline Villinger, Michael Blumenschein, Laura M König, Katrin Ziesemer, Gudrun Sproesser, Harald T. Schupp, Britta Renner
Abstract
For a comprehensive understanding of why we eat what we eat, dispositional assessments need to be extended by in-the-moment assessments of eating motives. Smartphone-based EMAs reveal considerable intra- and interindividual differences in eating motives, which are not captured by single timepoint dispositional assessments. Targeting these differences between why people think they eat what they eat and why they actually eat in the moment may hold great promise for tailored mobile health interventions facilitating behavior changes.