Influencing Factors to Overeating in Restrained Eaters: An Analysis Based on Specific Occupation

Abstract

Driven by the mainstream aesthetic in society, many people have begun to restrict their diet in pursuit of a better shape. Especially for specific occupations, such as dancers and figure skaters, the requirement of their careers has led to long-term restrained eating to keep a low BMI. However, a large proportion of people fail to restrict their diet or even develop eating disorders such as overeating at the end.Given the necessary restrained eating needs of specific occupation, the reasons why they may still break the dietary boundaries deserve to be investigated.Based on the definitions of restricted eating and overeating, this study summarizes previous research on overeating in restrained eaters, including psychological factors, attentional bias for food cues, lack of inhibitory control, and self-regulatory resource depletion. Then this study consider the particularity of specific occupations, including the influence of peer evaluation and repeated body surveillance, trying to conduct detailed analysis and reasonable inferences on specific influencing factors.Finally, based on the discussion, the study provides possible suggestions for the intervention of overeating and also directions for future empirical research.