Relación entre la conducta alimentaria emocional y la composición corporal medida por antropometría en adultos jóvenes, 2017

Abstract

The objective of the present degree work is to investigate the relationship of Emotional eating behavior and body composition in Young adults in order to determine if there is a conditioning or not depending on the behavioral diagnosis. The methodology applied is a cross-sectional non-experimental simple correlational by convenience, where the simple in which the study was conducted is a 60 people between 18 and 30 years old, of which 10 were men and 50 women. The survey instrument TEFQ-R21 (Three Factor Emotional Questionarie) was used for the diagnosis of eating behavior and anthropometry in obtaining data for the BMI (Body Mass Index), Body Fat and Muscle Mass diagnosis. As a result, it was shown that if there is a coinditioning of Emotional eating behavior towards body composition, altering body fat and BMI, the correlations found have significance (p<0,05) for these two paremeters of anthropometry. It was concluded that there is a relationship between the BMI and diagnoses of the food behavior instrument; in the presence of compulsivity, BMI is lower and in the presence of restriction, the population may have a higher BMI; in the presence of restriction, the percentage of fat mass increases and there is no relationship between muscle mass and diagnoses of the eating behavior instrument. Therefore it is recommended to make a longitudinal study in reference of the present Project, because if a follow-up and monitoring of these participants is used, we could find more information.