| This study was designed to clarify the relationship between emotion regulation and intuitive eating in 60 obese women (BMI<30) and 60 normal-weight wom-en. There is some significant correlation between the two groups. There is association between un-conditional permission to eating subscale and non-acceptance subscale (r= 0.26), strategies subscale and unconditional permission for eating subscale (r= 0.31), Physical emotional eating subscale and strate-gies subscale (r= 0.30), and also two negative con-nections between permission for unconditional eat-ing subscale and awareness subscale (r= -0.31), and awareness subscale and Suitable foods election sub-scale (r= -0.39) in obese women. Other associations are between physical emotional eating subscale and goals subscale(r= 0.29), awareness subscale and Trust in hunger and thirst cues subscale (r= -0.39), and clarity subscale and Trust in hunger and thirst cues subscale (r= -0.35) in normal-weight women. Findings show when obese women have some emo-tional problems, they cannot accept the situation and do something additional to regulate emotions in the form of unconditional eating. |