Perceived hunger mediates the relationship between attachment anxiety and emotional eating.

Eating is an inherently emotional activity and the attachment system is an emotion regulation system. Individuals with attachment insecurity have less interoceptive awareness and difficulty regulating emotion. Insecurely attached individuals may eat emotionally because they misinterpret internal hunger cues, (i.

Self-structure and postpartum dejection in first-time mothers.

Twenty-nine first-time mothers completed the Beck Depression Inventory (A. T. Beck, C.