The relationship of attitudes to the covid-19 pandemic with anxiety and emotional eating

The aim of the present study was to investigate the predictive roles of Covid-19 pandemic attitudes on anxiety and emotional eating. The sample of the study is comprised of 401 participants between the age of 18-66. Demographics Information Sheet, Covid-19 Pandemic Community Scale (Sensitivity to Covid-19 Pandemic, Protection against Covid-19 Pandemic, Social Trustin the Fight against Covid-19 Pandemic), Beck Anxiety Inventory and Emotinal Eating Scale were used as study measures. Multiple Hierarchical Regression Analysis was used to identify predictors of anxiety and emotional eating. Research findings revealed that sensitivity and protection from Covid-19 pandemic attitudes and demographic variables such as being female, low income and having a chronic illness had a significant predictive effect on anxiety. Emotional eating is predicted significantly by sensitivity and protective attitudes and demographic variables such as being a woman and weight gain. The findings were discussed in the context of the literatüre and suggestions for future research were provided and how it can contribute to clinical applications is discussed in the last section.