title: Effects of emotional eating and short sleep duration on weight gain in female employees.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether there is an interaction between emotional eating and sleep duration on weight change and whether this effect is stronger in women.
  
  
  METHODS
  One-year follow-up study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Banking environment.
  
  
  METHODS
  553 women and 911 men.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Self-reported emotional eating and body mass index (BMI) at T1 were measured in 2008, and sleep duration and BMI at follow-up (T2) were measured in 2009. A significant emotional eating-sleep duration interaction on BMI change was found in women, but not in men.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The finding that the highest weight gain was found in women who combined short sleep duration with high emotional eating-both of them are markers of (chronic) distress-suggests a possible role of poor psychological health and (chronic) stress in this relationship.
authors.affiliation: From the Institute for Gender Studies and Behavioural Science Institute (Dr van Strien), Radboud University, Nijmegen; Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences (Dr van Strien), Institute of Health Sciences, VU University Amsterdam; and Beter (Dr Koenders), Occupational Health Services, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Tatjana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: van Strien
authors.forename: Paul G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Koenders
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D016272:Occupational Health; D057185:Sedentary Behavior; D012890:Sleep / Q000502:physiology*; D015430:Weight Gain / Q000502:physiology*