The relationship of childhood trauma experience, difficulty of emotion regulation and self-compassion with emotional eating behavior

The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between childhood traumatic experience, difficulty in emotion regulation, and self-compassion and emotional eating behavior. Comparative relational screening model was used in the research. The study group of the study consists of 270 participants between the ages of 18-40, living in Kadıköy district of Istanbul province and selected by snowball sampling method. Sociodemographic Information Form, Emotional Eating Scale, Emotional Regulation Difficulty-Short Form (DERS-16), Childhood Mental Trauma Scale, Childhood Mental Trauma Scale and Self-Compassion Scale were used as data collection tools in the study. According to the results of the research, the emotional eating level of the participants was low, the difficulty in emotion regulation and the level of self-compassion were determined as moderate. The level of childhood trauma experience of the participants is above the cut-off score. According to the results of the research, participants who score high in eating behaviors in order to cope with tension and negative situations have less difficulty in emotion regulation in the awareness dimension, and higher emotions in the dimensions of openness, rejection, strategy setting, impulsivity and setting goals, compared to the participants who do not get high scores. has difficulties in regulation. It was determined that the participants who scored high in self-control behaviors had more emotional regulation difficulties in the dimensions of openness, openness, non-acceptance, strategy determination, impulsive behavior and determining their goals. Compared to those who did not score high in control behaviors in the face of stimulus; It was determined that it was lower in the dimensions of awareness and openness, and higher in the dimension of non-acceptance. Emotional abuse levels and self-compassion levels in childhood trauma experience of the participants who scored high in eating behaviors and self-control behaviors in order to cope with tension and negative emotions were found to be higher than the participants who did not get high scores. At the end of the research, suggestions were developed in line with the findings obtained.