title: Distal and proximal predictors of snacking at work: A daily-survey study.
abstract: This study aimed at examining predictors of healthy and unhealthy snacking at work. As proximal predictors we looked at food-choice motives (health motive, affect-regulation motive); as distal predictors we included organizational eating climate, emotional eating, and self-control demands at work. We collected daily survey data from 247 employees, over a period of 2 workweeks. Multilevel structural equation modeling showed that organizational eating climate predicted health as food-choice motive, whereas emotional eating and self-control demands predicted affect regulation as food-choice motive. The health motive, in turn, predicted consuming more fruits and more cereal bars and less sweet snacks; the affect-regulation motive predicted consuming more sweet snacks. Findings highlight the importance of a health-promoting eating climate within the organization and point to the potential harm of high self-control demands at work. (PsycINFO Database Record
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9464-4653
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sonnentag
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pundt
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Venz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D005502:Food; D005858:Germany; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*