Interrelation Between the Features of Eating Behavior and Existential Fulfillment

Master thesis is dedicated to testing the interrelation between features of eating behavior and existential fulfillment. The sample contains (N=304) men and women aged from 16 to 57 without eating behavior disorder. Respondents filled the variety of surveys: Dutch eating questionnaire, Eating Attitudes Test, TEM, TEMMO, Test of subjective alienation, Beck depression inventory, Zung depression scale, Spielberger anxiety scale. The association between the types of eating and existential fulfilment, existential fulfillment in close relationships, the level of subjective alienation, depression scale, scale of anxiety has been tested using multiple regression analysis. Statistically significant association between the types of eating behavior and the performance of the four fundamental existential motivations was obtained (R-square is from 0.087 to 0.303), the scale of depression Tsung (R-square is 0.164), the scale of anxiety Spielberger (R-square is from 0.046 to 0.287), the scale of "autonomic" questionnaire suektivnogo alienation was obtained (R-square is 0.149 ). Also, the specifics of the studied connection were found depending of the sex of participant and between people who are in a relationship and who are not. The results are important to consider when counseling people who have problems in eating behavior.