Anxiety is associated with appetitive traits in university students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nutrition Journal

Table 4 Associations between appetitive traits and GAD-7 score

AEBQ Scales	Unadjusted^a		Adjusted^b		Full model^c (R² = 0.155)
	β	p	β	p	β	p
Food approach traits
Hunger	1.79	< 0.01	1.69	< 0.01	1.36	< 0.01
Food responsiveness	0.92	< 0.01	0.81	< 0.01	0.58	0.03
Emotional over-eating	1.00	< 0.01	1.02	< 0.01	1.63	< 0.01
Enjoyment of food	−0.87	< 0.01	−0.84	< 0.01	−1.31	< 0.01
Food avoidance traits
Satiety responsiveness	0.92	< 0.01	0.84	< 0.01	0.54	0.01
Emotional under-eating	0.40	0.02	0.32	0.06	1.07	< 0.01
Food fussiness	0.66	< 0.01	0.55	< 0.01	0.20	0.28
Slowness in eating	0.22	0.16	0.17	0.28	0.01	0.95

^aAssociations between individual traits and GAD-7 score; ^bAssociations between individual traits and GAD-7 score, adjusted for age and gender; ^cFull model with all appetitive traits as predictors of GAD-7 score

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