Emotional Intelligence and Disordered Eating: Efficacy of Analysis Via Ecological Momentary Assessment

Presentations Session 2 - Hoover 213

The proposed presentation will provide background information on and preliminary baseline data from an ongoing pilot study of the use of EMA to assess the association between emotional intelligence and disordered eating. Participants will complete baseline surveys inquiring about disordered eating behaviors, emotional intelligence, and daily stressors, and receive text message prompts over two weeks asking about eating behaviors, stressors, and emotional intelligence. The study will ultimately address the following questions: does emotional intelligence predict occurrences of disordered eating symptoms and other eating behaviors over a subsequent two-week period and is ecological momentary assessment technology a feasible means of assessing day-to-day fluctuations in the presentation of disordered eating symptoms?