Evaluation of the relationship between food addiction and executive functions

Considering addiction, the substance that comes to mind in general is alcohol or gambling addiction. However, recent studies have revealed that there are other types of addictions. Eating addiction, which is difficult to notice in daily habits, but is of great psychological and physiological importance, is one of them. In this study, the relationship between eating addiction and executive functions, interactions between eating addiction and executive functions were investigated by neuropsychological evaluation. The universe of the study is composed of Halic University psychology undergraduate program students. The sample of the study consisted of 206 students according to 5% margin of error, with a specific sample account and 95% confidence interval. At the first stage, each participant who was voluntarily included in the study will be given a sociodemographic data form and participants who have the Yale Eating Addiction Scale, Beck Depression Scale, and the Beck Depression Scale score below 17 meeting the criteria for eating addiction were determined. The second stage included individuals with food addiction and individuals with randomly selected numbers of non-food addicts. In the second stage, Stroop Test, Wisconsin Card Mapping Test, Wechsler Memory Scale and Direction of Lines Test were applied to each participant. SPSS for Windows 22.0 program was used in the statistical analysis of the data. Sociodemographic data and scale / test scores of two groups with and without food addiction were compared. Keywords: Food Addiction, Executive Functions, Addiction