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

Table 3

Assessment of PSF, NEQ, and DERS-16 scores of students according to their demographic characteristics.

	Total PSF score ( ± SS)	Total NEQ score ( ± SS)	Total DERS-16 score ( ± SS)
Gender
Female	2.98 ± 0.91	17.25 ± 6.06	40.34 ± 14.47
Male	2.61 ± 0.97	16.71 ± 6.41	37.88 ± 13.81
	t = 4.940	t = 1.110	t = 2.167
Age ( ± SS)	r = −0.083	r = −0.028	r = −0.065
BMI ( ± SS)	r = 0.176	r = 0.079	r = 0.068
Disease diagnosis made by the doctor
Yes	2.95 ± 0.95	17.78 ± 6.42	41.49 ± 15.58
No	2.90 ± 0.94	17.03 ± 6.08	39.57 ± 14.14
	t = 0.590	t = 1.391	t = 1.522
Physical activity ≥150 minute/week
Yes	2.86 ± 0.94	16.78 ± 5.77	39.29 ± 14.21
No	3.02 ± 0.91	18.01 ± 6.85	41.22 ± 14.69
	t = −2.412	t = −2.727	t = −1.954
Daily sleep duration
<4 hours	3.27 ± 1.13	22.69^b ± 7.95	40.15^ab ± 18.68
4–6 hours	2.87 ± 0.88	18.34^ab ± 5.97	38.81^ab ± 13.91
6–8 hours	2.93 ± 0.81	16.70^a ± 5.80	38.36^a ± 14.40
>8 hours	2.87 ± 0.99	17.26^ab ± 6.51	42.86^b ± 13.89
	F = 0.909	W = 4.648	W = 6.998

PFS: Power of Food Scale, NEQ: Night-Eating Questionnaire, DERS-16: Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form, t: Independent Sample T-Test, r: Pearson product-moment correlation, and W: Welch ANOVA test; different letters indicate statistically significant differences (, , and ).