• Rui Poínhos, Oliveira Bruno M P M BMPM Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal; Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Apoio à Decisã, and Flora Correia.
• Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: ruipoinhos@fcna.up.pt.
• Nutrition. 2018 Apr 1; 48: 33-39.

ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to explore the relationships between eating behavior dimensions and psychopathological symptoms among Portuguese undergraduate students.MethodsWe studied 258 participants (62.4% women) regarding eating behavior dimensions (emotional, external and binge eating, flexible and rigid control of eating behavior, and eating self-efficacy), psychopathological distress (as assessed by the Brief Symptom Inventory), and body mass index. In addition to studying bivariate associations between eating behavior dimensions and psychopathological subscales and indexes, what we believe to be a novel analytical approach, considering simultaneously the effects of the overall level of psychopathological distress and the relevance of specific symptoms on the eating behavior dimensions.ResultsEmotional, external, and binge eating had positive correlations with psychopathological symptomatology, whereas eating self-efficacy was negatively associated.ConclusionsMultivariate analysis showed that the overall level of psychopathological distress (combined with body mass index, among women) had a larger effect on eating behavior than the relevance of specific symptoms.Copyright © 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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