The Relationship of Hedonic Hunger and Night-Eating Symptoms with Difficulties in Emotion Regulation in Young Adults

Table 2

The scores of PSF, NEQ, and DERS-16 scales of students.

	N	%
Total PSF score ( ± SD)	2.91 ± 0.94
Food available ( ± SD)	1.06 ± 0.40
Food present ( ± SD)	0.82 ± 0.29
Food tasted ( ± SD)	1.03 ± 0.34
PSF hedonic hunger
There is hedonic hunger	688	68.1
There is no hedonic hunger	322	31.9
Total NEQ score ( ± SD)	17.15 ± 6.13
Nocturnal ingestions	2.47 ± 4.08
Evening hyperphagia	3.48 ± 1.68
Morning anorexia	7.74 ± 2.70
Mood/sleep	3.46 ± 1.91
NEQ night-eating syndrome
There is night-eating syndrome	114	11.3
There is no night-eating syndrome	896	88.7
Total DERS-16 score ( ± SD)	39.86 ± 14.37
Clarity	4.81 ± 2.05
Goals	9.22 ± 3.36
Impulse	6.87 ± 3.20
Strategies	12.30 ± 5.23
Nonacceptance	6.66 ± 3.26

PSF: Power of Food Scale; NEQ: Night-Eating Questionnaire; DERS-16: Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form.