Table 6.

Emotional eating as predicted by demographic (Step 1), environmental (Step 2), psychopathological (Step 3), and psychological (Step 4) factors. Childhood trauma exposure in Step 2 was captured by total score on the CTQ.

Predicting emotional eating severity	Standardized β	T	P	R	R²	F change	P change
Step 1 – demographic				0.16	0.02	6.53	<0.001*
BMI	0.11	3.67	<0.001*
Age	0.04	1.33	0.18
Currently employed	−0.05	−1.53	0.13
Monthly household income	−0.07	−2.10	0.04*
Step 2 – environmental				0.23	0.05	15.6	<0.001*
BMI	0.11	3.63	<0.001*
Age	0.03	1.04	0.30
Currently employed	−0.04	−1.18	0.24
Monthly household income	−0.07	−2.02	0.04*
Childhood trauma total (CTQ)	0.12	3.62	<0.001*
Adult trauma experienced and witnessed (TEI)	0.08	2.36	0.02*
Step 3 – psychopathological				0.31	0.10	24.8	<0.001*
BMI	0.10	3.29	0.001*
Age	0.04	1.30	0.20
Currently employed	−0.01	−0.5	0.81
Monthly household income	−0.04	−1.27	0.20
Childhood trauma total (CTQ)	0.04	1.08	0.28
Adult trauma experienced and witnessed (TEI)	0.02	0.60	0.55
PTSD symptoms (PSS)	0.04	1.03	0.31
Depression symptoms (BDI)	0.22	5.15	<0.001*
Step 4 – psychological				0.35	0.13	16.2	<0.001*
BMI	0.10	3.44	0.001*
Age	0.06	1.82	0.07
Currently employed	0.002	0.06	0.95
Monthly household income	−0.03	−1.05	0.30
Childhood trauma total (CTQ)	0.02	0.52	0.61
Adult trauma experienced and witnessed (TEI)	0.03	0.96	0.34
PTSD symptoms (mPSS)	0.01	0.14	0.89
Depression symptoms (BDI)	0.08	1.70	0.09
Negative affect (PANAS)	0.12	2.98	0.003*
Emotion dysregulation (EDS)	0.14	3.52	<0.001*