No significant correlations were found between emotional eating and attachment avoidance. The possible reason is their frequent practice of suppressing emotion may lead to less emotional awareness.

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Individuals with attachment insecurity have less interoceptive awareness and difficulty regulating emotion. Hence, Insecurely attached individuals may eat emotionally because they misinterpret internal hunger cues.

Emotional Eating and Insecure Attachment

Alexander, K. E., & Siegel, H. I. (2013). Perceived hunger mediates the relationship between attachment anxiety and emotional eating. Eating behaviors, 14(3), 374-377.

Perceived hunger mediates the relationship between attachment anxiety and emotional eating

Emotional Eating and Avoidant Attachment

Higher levels of attachment anxiety are associated with emotional eating. Perhaps, attachment anxiety leads to a misinterpretation of internal cues, and individuals perceive hunger when they actually desire something attachment-related.

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