Presenting Structural Model of Emotional Eating by Predicting of Trait-State Anxiety with the Mediating Role of Emotional processing in People with Obesity

The research method was cross-sectional type of correlation. The statistical population of this study consisted of all obese people referring to health centers and diets in Tehran in 1398, of which 378 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. Research tools were Emotional Eating Duch's (1986), Trait-State Anxiety Spiel-Berger's (1970) and Emotional Processing Bakker et al.'s (2010) Questionnaire. Data analysis and analysis of SPSS-V23 and Lisrel-V8.8 software were used. Structural equation modeling was used to answer the research hypotheses. The results showed that there was a significant direct and negative effect on emotional well-being between trait-state anxiety. There is a significant indirect and negative effect on emotional processing between trait-state anxiety. There is also a significant indirect and negative effect on emotional processing between emotional processing. Therefore, it can be concluded that trait-state anxiety affects emotional eating with the Mediating Role of emotional processing in obese individuals. The findings support the existence of underlying psychological mechanisms in the development of obesity. Therefore, attention to these variables helps researchers and therapists to prevent and design more appropriate therapies.